October in the Dordogne is quieter now. The fields are slowing, the walnuts gathered, the vines picked clean. But for bees, it’s still...

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness — and of walnuts. The air sharpens, leaves fall in bronze...

Vineyards are surely the most civilised of our ancient cultivations. Humanity seems to have evolved liking its plants arranged in tidy...

On a rainy day last November, the humble baguette was acknowledged and enshrined forever by UNESCO as “a thing of exceptional interest for the common heritage of mankind.”

Larders. A kitchens inner sanctum. Holy places, robust and well-filled, perhaps inscribed with wise, grandmotherly apothegms, carved on...

As a wine area, Bergerac is seen by many as a bit of a “dabbler” with some steady reds and winsome whites, but its sweetest secret is a...