Kitchen Decor

This evening the children will sprinkle the kitchen garden and will gather some bits aromatics for tart of Fanny.

"The evening, the smells flavored by the warm ground moistened by the watering of the Provençal gardener."

This morning with the kitchen garden Charlotte and Corentin will gather small spring vegetables.

"Vegetables soaked with the Provence scents, protected as secret, savoured as sin."

In Shade of the Garden, Pretty this May and June, let us gather with the garden the dishevelled peonies.

"The Provence farmer is going to finish his days in the freshness of his garden with all his well hidden secrets."

At the end of summer, under thick foliations, let us crunch the grape very gorged with sugar and burning sun.

"It is the long-awaited moment by the wine grower of Provence: the hour of the grape harvests. Suddenly the countryside starts again living"

The laurel has patience in the garden before to be dried in the cusine to adapt many provencaux dishes.

"Attention on this grass of Provence, especially for the children, because when it is green the leaf of the laurel is toxic"

Always present in nature, the kitchen, a pot or a basket thyme is the inevitable meeting of Provence.

"In the Provençal cooking, thyme is the most used by far. Of the grill in simmered flat youngs, it perfumes quite as one pleases."

Another odor of Provence. In ballade rosemary rubs with you and still scents your atmosphere during long days.

"The rosemary is long-lived and acclimatizes easily far from its native Provence."

In Provence the worship of the lavender is present everywhere. You can even taste ice cream with lavender.

"The use of the aforementioned grass of Provence in the Provençal cooking lives however almost nobody."

Lavenders summer: these fraiches scents to perfume the embroidered linen sleeping in cupboards.

"Our ancestors, in Provence, perfumed cupboards and took away insects with the dried lavender."

At shade of the treille, at the suspended hours, we enjoy between friends of the delights without similar.

"The straw hat, the "capéou" in Provençal, is indispensable for flanner or make in fields. Warning in the sun which fills"

The garden full sun: O, beautiful summer, returned here the time of these baths of sun and these lunched flowered under the arbour.

"Sunflower: "turn with the sun". In a completed alignment all the flowers turn to the radiant beams."

Tea lover partner, always lends to deliver its varied savours come from east.

"For the Provençal people not long ago even, this beverage and these exotic utensils, seemed chic people reserved."

The oil pot in the past was used to preserve olive oil with shelters of the light in the part pantry.

"In Provence the olive oil serves for all the recipes and it support easyly the strong temperatures of cookings."

The preserve pot in the past was used to keep food in salt, oil or straw.

"The strong hot season of Provence obliged the ancient to find all the craftiness to protect the food"

Very thick, with a narrow neck intended for better preserving the freshness of the liquid in summer: The jug of Provence.

"It left in fields, filled with some fresh water of the well, and crossed the scorching days in closer of the farmer."

Symbol of abundance, immortality or knowledge, the fig tree didn't finish surprising us.

"In Provence, with the figs leaves, the ancient prepared effective herb teas for the blood circulation, the digestion, to check the cough."

A hot and very trendy decoration resulting from the marriage of two cultures: flax and olive-tree.

"These two noble cultures are exploited since the antiquity. The one is Provençal, the other one not, but their colors are very complementary."

In Provence orchards illuminated, the complicity of the sun fills fruits of sweetness.

"Apricot trees, cherry trees, apple trees, pear trees are held side by side in this space of Provençal light."

The scrubland, the secret garden of the childhood. Ceaseless discoveries, unforgettable flavours real presents for our memoirs.

"The evening, the return in the ancient country-house posthaste, the burnt legs by the scratches of the Provençal vegetation."

Name of Provençal origin jar exists since the antiquity and it served to preserve any sort of food and liquids.