Goose Fat and Garlic Country Recipes from South-West France

"...[P]easant cuisine is, first of all, a cuisine of connections, and Jeanne Strang is marvelous at tracing them, sometimes from chapter to chapter, as each part of the family pig or duck or goose is set into its proper place in soups, salads, main dish, confit, and even snacks. There is a French phrase for this kind of cooking--la cuisine du terroir--and it is that which is the true subject of this book....Chapters on the pig, geese, ducks, eggs, garlic, mushrooms, cheeses, and the like, lay out the entire peasant repertoire of humble--and not so humble (she gives us a whole chapter on cassoulet)--regional dishes with the native soil still clinging to their roots. This book shows us them and the garden they were pulled from: the place where great French food still lives and breathes...Strang, Jeanne is the author of 'Goose Fat and Garlic Country Recipes from South-West France' with ISBN 9781856265362 and ISBN 1856265366.