Tomiko and I discovered Amyco Champignons Sauvages when we spied a small, hand-painted, mushroom-shaped wooden sign on the side of the road just off La Route des Saveurs de Charlevoix. The shop was really just a curtained off room in the back of a family’s house where foraged products were available for sale. The small boutique offered both dried […]
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Fromagerie St-Fidèle
After spending some time in Quebec City and the Île d’Orléans, Tomiko and I resumed our Quebec Culinary Adventure, heading to the Charlevoix region between Quebec City and Tadoussac. Fromagerie St-Fidèle is a dairy in the Charlevoix region of Quebec and we stopped here to buy some cheese, obviously! Fromagerie St-Fidèle, founded in 1902, has […]
Alpagas Charlevoix
Alpagas Charlevoix is an alpaca farm and fibre store in the Charlevoix region of Quebec. Charlevoix is one of Quebec’s most inventive regions for agrotourism. The landscape includes green, rolling hills dotted with trees; fjords; headlands; and bays; hugs the St. Lawrence River and is a designated a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. Tomiko and I were driving on highway […]
La Route des Saveurs de Charlevoix
La Route des Saveurs de Charlevoix, or the Charlevoix Flavour Trail, crosses the Charlevoix region of Quebec and brings the traveller to the various food producers in the terroir. When Tomiko and I plotted our Quebec Culinary Adventure, we based our route on how far we could get in the time we had. That meant we […]
The Year In Books: September with French Lessons by Peter Mayle
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle chronicles the culinary adventures of an English writer living in Provence. While eating across the country with his friends, Mayle finds out how the French stress the importance of local and seasonal foods. One such example is how the chicken farmers of Bresse mark each bird […]