Spring, by far the best season of the year and Ceret’s vibrant market will be packed with local  produce asparagus, aillets, bunches of young artichokes, broad beans, peas, mache, fresh sparkling white brousse (our version of ricotta), fresh onions, baskets of freshly picked herbs, young fennel bulbs, if we are lucky the foraging stall will be there with ‘Ail des Ours’ – wild garlic leaves.  You will get to meet our chocolatiere, Florence, and taste her famous handmade complex and intoxicating chocolates, she always has seasonal flavours, sadly the ‘bear paws’ she makes to celebrate our bear festivals will not be seen again until next January.  Meet another Florence who is part of Thibault Gonzalez team, selling pork from their organically farmed rare breed Gascon pigs in the Vallespir.   Ceret’s market is packed with local organic produce.   I will show you how to identify the best of the local stalls, the best of the season and talk about how to get the best from seasonal produce in your kitchen.  This 2 hr wandering tour, with lots of opportunity to buy, also includes a couple of seasonal recipes for you to take home and try.  If there is time we can enjoy a coffee together and talk food and cooking with the odd tale from an itinerant chef.

Numbers limited, contact me via email hilaryjj@btinternet.com or +44 7714 334718 to book