It's early for truffles, and there is but one small vendor with a few gnarled "black diamonds" arrayed on his table. Walnuts are also everywhere-vin de noix, gateaux de noix, huile de noix, and delicate sweets and pastries. Fresh and tinned foie gras from a few ounces to kilos blood red magret duck breasts and confit legs in creamy fat mounds of gnarled boar and deer sausages, dried crepes and girolles, and cheeses from tiny rounds of goat cabecous to enormous wheels of brebis. Perigord is duck, goose, boar, mushroom, walnut and truffle country, and all are in evidence in various market stalls. The morning after we arrive the Wednesday market meanders into winding cobbled lanes and narrow partially covered passages from the Cathedrale to the 17th c.
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If you hid those more modern shop fronts, another Three Musketeers movie could easily be shot in Sarlat. Imposing 15th, 16th & 17th century Hotels Particuliere line the rue des Consuls and Rue Alberic Cahuet. monastic Cathedrale St Sacerdos, originally the Sarlat Abbey church and the adjoining Bishop's Palace mix all these styles one atop the other. One can almost imagine Frank Gehry getting his original inspiration from Sarlat for his jumbled massing of shapes. Built over several hundred years from medieval through Renaissance times, the town's architecture mixes gothic, Romanesque, and classical styles in its elegant townhouses, square towers and round, witch-hat topped turrets-all at odd and curious angles to one another. An hour's guided walking tour orients us and provides some historical context. Save for some modern shop fronts at the ground level, old Sarlat is little changed over the centuries. That corkscrew staircase will prove a nemesis, as one of us will slip, fall, and break a toe, which will be many months in the healing. An enormous limestone fireplace dominates the main level of seating, dining and open kitchen areas, but disappointingly, the ownership does not allow wood fires for guests. Our small flat for the week, up narrow Rue Presidial, a block off the central Place de Liberte', is two levels with a wooden corkscrew staircase and narrow stone balcony overlooking the street. Our base for wandering the byways of Bruno's Perigord is Sarlat - a honey-gold limestone town set in a hill hollow nine kilometers from the meandering Dordogne River. Cyprien, Belves, Les Eyzies, Tremolat, Le Bugue and Le Buisson-many of which we will visit. Denis perched over the Vezere River valley is Bruno's fiefdom-a composite of several towns in the area: St.
A dear friend introduced me to the novels of English author Martin Walker: Bruno, Chief of Police-set in the historic and gastronomic Dordogne region of France.these lovely books are murder mysteries, but detail a picture of village and county life in this picturesque place, with much emphasis on local food specialities and iconic wines.
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