White Stone, Black Wine: Life Among the Ancient Vineyards of the Quercy Blanc

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White Stone, Black Wine: Life Among the Ancient Vineyards of the Quercy Blanc Customer Review: Mouthwatering
I’d just like to second D Paul’s review. I loved the author’s descriptions of the local markets and those endless, convivial meals - I can well imagine she is an accomplished chef. She really gets the juices flowing and makes you want to hop on the first available train/plane. It’s also refreshing to read a book ostensibly about moving to France but which isn’t full of tales of woe about trying to find builders, trouble with the septic tank and so forth, nor poking fun at the locals. Instead, she focuses on the extraordinary warmth and generosity her neighbours. This book is more a celebration of life in rural France, while also covering a fair bit of local history and evoking the Lot’s stunning landscapes.
Customer Review: A delightful romp through one of France’s prettiest corners
Holiday-makers passing through Quercy’s seductive villages and vineyards, its little market towns and rambling old farms, its wild limestone plateaus and deep woodlands fantasize what it’s like to actually live here year round. In White Stone Black Wine, Amanda Lawrence spills the beans in a light-hearted account of everyday life in the Lot. An accomplished chef, her passion for the seasonal bounty, local markets, the Black Wine of Cahors, and long lazy lunches comes out in every chapter, woven with tales of exuberant village f?tes, local history and peasant wisdom, and what happens when one gets sucked unknowingly into a lady’s cleaning products party. Even if you’ve lived in this little nook of southwest France for years (as we have), White Stone Black Wine is a refreshing reminder of just why you moved here in the first place.