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Welcome to our website saveurfrance.com , dedicated to providing fresh perspectives and insights on the restaurants, foods and wines, and emerging gastronomic trends of France. Your guides are Bernard Jarrier & Carole Peck, the owners of the acclaimed Carole Peck's
Good News Cafe
in Woodbury, CT, and hosts of Carole Peck's Provence Culinary
Tours. Bernard's inside perspectives on French cuisine and dining and Carole's intimate professional knowledge of regional French cooking combine to provide a unique guide for novice and experienced travelers alike.
The first man to fly across the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh saw France from the air on the 21st of may 1927. He had been flying for more than30 hrs and seen nothing but ocean since he had left New York. Now the green fields and woods of Normandy were below him- Journey s end! Time for a bite! -- He took a sandwich from its wrapper and stretched to throw the wrapper from his cockpit. Then he looked down and decided that just wouldn t do. My first act, Lindbergh said to himself, will not be to sully such a beautiful garden!
We wish his descendants would have the same feeling!
The fields that Lindbergh flew over are larger now, the roads straighter and wider, the peasants dramatically fewer, never the less, if you drive from Paris to the South of France or take the high speed train (TGV) from Paris to Avignon, you will still be surrounded by a beautiful landscape of farms and pastures.
Yes, even after so many changes of the last 50 years, nobody doubts that France is special; certainly not the French! It is the largest and was once the most powerful countries in Europe. With its linguistic unity and its natural boundaries "France can be seen as a hexagonal fortress with water on three sides and mountains on two. It is within this fortress that we can see France's clearer identity: a less contested nationalism than most countries that share a continent. Its history is alive with symbols, events, heroes and slogans which have not been shuttered in the cobwebs of the past.
France is grand and still unfolding story as the French tell it to themselves.
France is the birthplace of modern ideas and modern politics. The notions of liberty, equality and fraternity have dignified its homeland and formed part of France's claim to its status as a universal nation.
Add that to a cultural pre-eminence which lasts through the last two centuries. Think about the French novel, the French painting in the nineteenth century, French film in the twentieth century, and a way of living- notorious for its discriminating pleasure in philosophy, love, food, drink and fashion. Let us not forget about France's claim to be the global model for civilization. All of this can seem unanswerable.
"Ah the French," as the visitor gets on a jet heading west to North America, "They know how to live!"
Our 2010 schedule of Provence Culinary Tours led by Carole Peck:
September 19-25 and October 3-9.
In 2011, The dates will be
June 6-12 & 20-26
September 19-25
October 10-16.
Please follow this link to Carole Peck's 2010/2011 Provence Culinary Tours for complete tour information, reservation forms and an extensive photographic tour of the Prieure Notre Dame, home to the culinary tours in the village of Montfrin.
Thank you,
Carole, Bernard and Tatoo
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