This book combines a diary and a collection of cooking recipes, with a forest product as the main or secondary ingredient. Cooking flowers, leaves, bark and even acorns, this is Laurence Dessimoulie’s proposal. You learn to cook mimosa, eucalyptus, ash, hazel and many other species. This book shakes up your received ideas and invites you to joyful walks in the forest in search of the unique ingredient. An educational walk in the Médoc, following the calendar, you test recipes after responsible picking with your family. From January to December: almond cream with pine buds, smoked mozzarella with pine needles, bricks with eggplant, feta and fresh hazelnuts…
Sophie Juby: For us Aquitaine, I noticed the arbutus cream cake, this sunny orange berry that is harvested in September throughout the region. And also many recipes including maritime pine needles, a species endemic to the region.
Laurence Dessimoulie also gives you the medicinal properties of all these treasures. Laurence Dessimoulie has been an eco-responsible independent cook in the Médoc since 2004. Author of Peasants sowers and breeders, Savor the wild plants of the estuary, Sunflower pop’ on our plates and Benevolent cooking with Éditions Sud-Ouest, she shares her recipes based on seasonal products and gleaned plants. Cooking is for her an essential gesture that underlines the links between the field and the plate. Go ahead and bring: AGENDA 2023, Flavors of the forest, trees and shrubs by Laurence Dessimoulie, Diary 17 x 22 cm • 128 pages Paperback with flaps €14.
Sophie Juby has been writing about food and wine since 2014. In her blog, Le Meilleur de Bordeaux (formerly Bordeaux Cuisine and Co), she shares her passion for her adopted city through chronicles and favourites. In 2018, she launched a guide to restaurants in Bordeaux with Editions Sud-Ouest: Le Meilleur de Bordeaux. Today, the third edition of the book is available in bookstores, always with the desire to highlight sincere addresses where home cooking is served in keeping with the seasons. Sophie Juby also gives preference to those who use local products. And as she also thinks of all budgets, she has selected 100 accessible restaurants. An easy classification in 10 sections allows you to find your gourmet happiness among: 10 Dishes to share / 10 Gourmet restaurants / 10 Bistros / 10 World cuisine / 10 Vegetarians / 10 Lunch break / 10 Coffee bars & tea rooms / 10 Brunches / 10 Open on Sundays / 10 wine & cocktail bars. Sophie Juby is present on the networks, Instagram, Facebook and on a more personal blog.