6/20/2023 0 Comments Cassoulet kate hill![]() You know the sort of thing I like to write, weather reports interspersed with nature observations, a little wistful, a little nostalgic. I was going to write a lyrical little post this week called 'French Rain'. Here are the January Market season specials: ![]() What I found instead was a wonderful show of winter produce at bargain prices with a smattering of artisan poultry growers with their wares prepared for a more urban audience- fatted ducks already cut, cleaned and parceled out ready to confit. ![]() I had expected there to be a great show of fatted ducks at this time of year. There was but one truck of cages filled with bedraggled-looking chickens from a local 'semi-industrialized' farm. The Wednesday morning soundtrack was a low murmur of gossip and clucking.Įven in this Southwest France modern times have arrived and the buying of live poultry in an urban environment has slowly disappeared from Agen. ![]() When I first arrived in the Lot-et-Garonne in 1987, there were rows of benches on which housecoat-wearing Frenchwomen and beret-sporting Gascons sat behind piles of feathered friends tied together at the ankles or next to cardboard boxes with beaks and tails sticking out. Traditionally the Wednesday morning market in Agen has been the live poultry market. ![]()
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