When the countryside comes to you. Find out when and where you can enjoy the pleasures of browsing through an outdoor market in Aquitaine for local produce, fresh fruit and vegetables and organic food from the bio-food producers.

France's fields and forests have a wide variety of edible mushrooms. But before heading out to pick them it is essential to know if permission is required. Find out where to go and how to find out if a mushroom is edible.

Like absinthe, only legal. Essential resources for anyone interested in Provence's "national drink".

An introduction to the growing, distilling and aging process of the French Brandy - Cognac - which is produced in parts of Poitou-Chatrentes as well as the Dordogne departement north of the Aquitaine region. Includes links to further i