Wild asparagus, wild strawberries : two years in France / Barbara Santich.
Publication details: Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2018.Description: 282 pages : map ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781743055335
- 914.4 23
- TX637 .S455 2018
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 914.4 SAN | Available | 068772 |
"First published 2018"--Title page verso.
Includes recipe index.
1. Nizas -- 2. Prelude -- 3. Arrival -- 4. L'Escoute -- 5. Milk and bread -- 6. Life in Nizas -- 7. The shepherd and the gypsies -- 8. Markets -- 9. The butcher -- 10. Libraries -- 11. Gastronomic explorations -- 12. Vin du pays -- 13. Jean-Pierre and Vivette -- 14. A la française --15. Wild leeks and wild asparagus -- 16. Au revoir Nizas -- 17. Bonjour Caromb -- 18. Madame and Raymond -- 19. Mistral -- 20. Julian -- 21. Visa -- 22. Pot-au-feu -- 23. Feast to famine -- 24. Cooking like the locals -- 25. Snails -- 26. Cherry harvest -- 27. Progress -- 28. June at Caromb -- 29. Claret -- 30. Le Parti Socialiste -- 31. Le quartorze juillet -- 32. Courses de taureaux -- 33. Where next? -- 34. Villanueva y Geltrú -- 35. Cambrils -- 36. Home again! -- 37. La vendange -- 38. Partridge -- 39. "The cold, dark north" -- 40. A house in the forest -- 41. Work - and flying -- 42. Potatoes -- 43. Christmas -- 44. Parisian weekends -- 45. Geese -- 46. Television and politics -- 47. "Yes, we live in Europe" -- 48. Spring and salons -- 49. "Our correspondent in France" -- 50. La Belle Epoque -- 51. Wild strawberries -- 52. Summer -- 53. Au revoir -- Epilogue.
"I drank Normandy farmhouse cider, ate strawberries dipped in red wine then sugar, and tasted truffles and soft goat cheeses for the first time. I returned to Australia inspired to become a food writer. France bewitched Barbara Santich as a student in the early 1970s. She vowed to return, and soon enough she did - with husband and infant twins in tow. Wild Asparagus, Wild Strawberries tells the story of the magical two years that followed. Buoyed by naïve enthusiasm, Barbara and her husband launched themselves into French village life, a world of winemaking, rabbit raising, cherry picking and exuberant 14 Juillet celebrations. Here we see the awakening of Barbara Santich's lifelong love affair with food history. And also a lost France, 'when the 19th century almost touched hands with the 21st'. Shepherds still led their flocks to pasture each day and, even near the bustling towns, wild strawberries hid at the forest's edge."--Back cover.
