Duck Season: Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in Gascony--France's Last Best Place

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0062309412 ISBN13: 9780062309419 Release Date: March 2017 Publisher: Harper Length: 288 Pages Weight: 1.05 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0" A delicious memoir about the eight months food writer David McAninch spent in Gascony--a deeply rural region of France virtually untouched by mass tourism--meeting extraordinary characters and eating the best meals of his life.Though he'd been a card-carrying Francophile all of his life, David McAninch knew little about Gascony, an ancient region in Southwest France mostly overlooked by Americans. Then an assignment sent him to research a story on duck. After enjoying a string of rich meals--Armagnac-flamb ed duck tenderloins; skewered duck hearts with chanterelles; a duck-confit shepherd's pie strewn with shavings of foie gras--he soon realized what he'd been missing.McAninch decided he needed a more permanent fix. He'd fallen in love--not only with the food but with the people, an