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Article: At home on vacation, sampling the Dordogne
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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SARLAT, France - It was a cool, early summer morning in
southwestern France and the Sunday market in the hilltop village of
Saint-Genies had just opened for business. In a small parking lot
behind the stone church, white vans and long tables offered up the
region's bounty: bowls of green and black olives, bottles of walnut
oil, prunes, foie gras, and jars of duck confit.
While my husband, John, darted off to take pictures, I raced
around to gather ingredients for dinner. We had rented a farmhouse
for two weeks in the Dordogne, in part, to buy and cook with
ingredients unavailable back home. Our retreat near the town of
Sarlat would enable us to live like locals and save money. With the ...