Amsterdam Foodie

Day one of my Dordogne holiday started mightily out of character. My three girl friends – Scary French Lady from Amsterdam, the Feminist from London and the Parisian from, well, Paris – dragged me out on a 5 km run. Needless to say, by the end of it my trainers had given me blisters, my knees felt like they’d been in a train crash and my arse acquired pain in muscles I didn’t know it had. A broken woman, I decided to stick to what foodies do best: cook and eat.

As luck would have it, that’s not hard in France. Here are some of the culinary highlights…

Michelin-starred cheese from La Cognette

Magret de canard and gesiers salad from Benjamin Andrieux's Ferme Auberge

More of Benjamin's duck...

Blackberry picking as distraction from exercise...

Coq au vin, cooked in our rustic farmhouse

Leftovers: coq au vin and Toulouse sausage pie

More duck at another Ferme Auberge

Mille feuille from Quai Quai in Paris