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Gastronomie!
Food Museums and Heritage Sites of France
by Tom Hughes and Meredith Sayles Hughes
Bunker Hill Publishing,
October 2005
Christmas is coming, so
snap up this one for your foodie friends and family
members hunkered down in armchairs, waiting for
fuel prices to drop. Or buy the book for active
foodie travelers bored with all the usual sites.
Gastronomie! is the first extensive exploration
ever of French food historic sites.
No one else delivers you
this kind of book, food-lovers, packed with colorful
photos from our trek and from The FOOD Museum's
collections. We traveled over 10,000 kilometers
around France ( someone had to do it) to bring
you the backstory of French food.
Here's what one of our blurbs says:
A lively guide for
food loving travelers, whether they venture forth
or voyage vicariously, Gastronomie!
is for the foodie who travels not only to eat,
but also to discover answers to questions like
these: How is Rocquefort cheese made? What ingredients
are blended into Benedictine?
How are Burgundy snails raised ? Why did this
whole foie gras thing begin? Why are Brittany
and Normandy so well suited to apple growing?
Have truffle dogs really replaced pigs? What does
the French Revolution have to do with salt?
Gastronomie!
won't supply all the answers but it will direct
you to the people who can, and the sites that
honor, preserve and explain local food traditions.
After all, France, the mother country of Western
cuisine, is the home of more museums about food,
and more initiatives to preserve food heritage
traditions and sites, than any other.
Explore the Saffron
Museum in Boynes, the world food museum at Agropolis
in Montpellier, the ruins of a huge Roman mill
outside Arles, the Olive Museum in Nyons, the
fig orchards of Sollies-Pont, the oyster beds
of Ile d'Oleron, the turkey parade and festival
in Licques, the village ovens of Bugey, the Chocolate
Museum in Biarritz, the Newfoundland Fishing Museum
in Fecamp, the Honey Museum in Gramont, the melon
statue in Cavaillon, the truffle market in Lalbenque,
and more.
And sample a few
choice recipes, as well.
Signed by the authors, $19.95
+ $4 S&H.
The Great
Potato Book
by Meredith Sayles Hughes and E. Thomas
Hughes
A classic of potato history, jokes and lore,
The Great Potato Book,
first published in 1986, is back! ( A few boxes
of books turned up in Jack Benny's vault.) Researched
and written by The Potato Museum/Food Museum
people and illustrated with black and white
spud illustrations from The Potato Museum collection,
this hardcover, delicious book can be yours,
signed by the authors, for a special price of
$10.00 + $ 4 S&H. All
proceeds go to support the foodie work we do.
Get your copy while they last.
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The
FOOD Museum needs to eat too!
Please keep us fed--you'll support the website
and help bring lively, multi-cultural food programs
to schools across the country.
Plants
We Eat series
by
Meredith Sayles Hughes
(Lerner Publishing)
Buried Treasure: Roots & Tubers
Cool as a Cucumber, Hot as a Pepper
Fruit Vegetables
Spill the Beans and Pass the Peanuts
Legumes
Glorious Grasses: The Grains
Flavor Foods: Spices & Herbs
Tall and Tasty: Fruit Trees
Green Power:
Leaf & Flower Vegetables
Hard to Crack: Nut Trees
The Great Potato Book
(Macmillan, 1986)
Gastronomie!
Food Museums &
Heritage Sites of France
(Bunker Hill Publishing, Oct 2005)
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