- Paperback
- Publisher: Raincoast Books; 1st Raincoast printing edition (Oct 8 2004)
- ISBN-10: 155192739X
- ISBN-13: 978-1551927398
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #711,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ten years ago, Angela Murrills and Peter Matthews began their love affair with the Languedoc. Stretching from the Rhone to the Pyrennees, it is one of Europe's oldest and richest regions, but unlike neighbouring Provence it is little visited. Its wonders include the castles of the Cathars; the Camargue, home to the famous white horses; superb Roman ruins such as the arena at Nîmes; and Carcassone, Europe's greatest fortified town.
But what really attracted Murrills and Matthews was the region's love of food and wine. As their trips became longer and the search for a house heated up, they began to discover another way of living, a slower one based on gastronomic pleasure and the really important things in life: hunting for mushrooms, visits to the market, long lunches and heated debates about the best way to make cassoulet.
An unabashed celebration of the joys of food and cooking, Hot Sun, Cool Shadow tells the story of the author's discovery of the Languedoc, area by area, dish by dish. It includes more than 80 of Peter Matthews' delightful illustrations.
About the Author
Angela Murrills writes on food and lifestyle for many publications, including the Georgia Straight, Western Living, the Globe and Mail and Food Arts, and is the author of Food City: Vancouver. She and her husband, retired art director Peter Matthews, divide their time between Vancouver and the Languedoc.
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Good travel, good food and good history-great reading!, Aug 16 2006
By Tim Johnson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hot Sun, Cool Shadow: Savouring the Food, History and Mystery of the Languedoc (Paperback)
For disparate reasons, Diane and I have seen more of Languedoc than any other region of France so it was natural that I would be attracted to this enticing book covering this trinity of ingredients in Murrills' heady book.The ingredient that binds this wonderful melange of delights together is the interminable hunt for the perfect, at least to them, house. All of the travel throughout the length and breadth of Languedoc-Roussillon and thereby providing the substance, its food and history, is to provide opportunities for the author and her husband to, seemingly, examine every house for sale in the pronvince. The map just before the Prolgue is extremely important to the book because the pot into which these ingredients are mixed is this map showing the many places in Angela's and therefore your journey. With a specific place used as a starting point for each chapter, the book becomes a three demensional map of Languedoc and many of the villages, towns or small cities that she visits in her and her husband's house hunting journey becomes a reason to delve into the history and more importantly the particular food of the area.
My particular interest in the Cathars and their eventual total destruction by the Albigensian Crusade meant that this travel book, more than others, intrigued me. The author visited some of the Cathar sites that I've also visited: Monysegur, Albi and Carcassonne. These places plus a myriad of others that I have not visited constitute the historical backbone of this marvellous book. However, a further ingrdient besides these historical examinations, is the regional food that Murrills exams. She ends each chapter with one of those regional recipes and throughout the preceding chapter, offers traveler descriptions of the foods and acacdotes about its importance and its role in the greater Languedoc community.
This is a wonderful book and deserves attention from lovers of history, food and anacdotal travel.
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