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Gold star Gascony; Trading places: The Staines are enjoying a good life in Gascony.
; ...rowdy state schools for classrooms in Gascony, where pupils learn times tables, spellings...upheld,' says Ian Purslow, of Purslow's Gascony. In Britain, school fee inflation is running...as a therapist for British settlers in Gascony after moving to France with her husband...
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Taste of homemade foie gras in fortified cities; French fun: There are plenty of temptations in the Gascony area
; ...realized that the gastronomic temptations of Gascony were formidable. My wife suddenly gave...the next three weeks. The problem with Gascony is the sheer impossibility to stay focused...enough? Try a myriad of local Armagnacs, Gascony's answer to Cognac. The producers are...
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GASCONY SERVES UP SIMPLE FARE
; ...Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-13-1996 GASCONY SERVES UP SIMPLE FARE -- FRANCE'S `SOUL...surveyor, made the trip with her from Gascony for a week of dinners, demonstrations...foods and flavors she grew up with in Gascony, a farming region known for its wild mushrooms...
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Restaurants: All for one and one for all Gascony, home of d'Artagnan, provides an earthy alternative to the fancier French fare. Forks en garde! Photograph by Madeleine Waller
; A restaurant dedicated to the gutsy cuisine of Gascony may not sound like a radical departure in London dining...from Toulouse, excelled himself. Duck foie gras (typical of Gascony) with piquillos, looked like a baby's fist gripping red ribbon...
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Travel: In search of...Cowboys in Gascony You may think that rodeo sports and the French are as compatible as Dolly Parton and Piaf. Jane E Knight says that's a load of bull
; ...the south- west of France, where the little corner that is Gascony boasts a smattering of cattle ranches. The region's wild cows...It is so much a part of the local culture that "coming to Gascony and not going to see the courses landaises is like going to...
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Gascony and all that jazz; Forget New Orleans, one of the world's best music festivals is hidden away in a beautiful corner of south-west France.
; ...have heard of the tiny town of Marciac in Gascony, but jazzers the world over have, since...favourite country for the first time. Gascony doesn't exist as a political entity any...the 19th Century, though, it seems as if Gascony has gone into hibernation, which is as...
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to the British invasion of Gascony Clare Longrigg visits a family thriving in their adopted country - and wants to stay
; ...bought their farmhouse, near Nerac in Gascony, four years ago as a wreck. "Everyone...into the gentler farming landscape of Gascony. One of the main changes they made to...blues. The incoming Brits and Americans in Gascony are keen to cultivate the passing tourist...
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Travel Etc: In search of... Gastronomic Gascony Duck liver terrine? Or full-on foie gras, washed down with a few slurps of Armagnac? Kate Simon samples a cuisine that is unrepentantly unreconstructed
; ...flavour. So what are we going to start with? Foie gras ... Foie gras? Isn't that rather politically incorrect? Yep. That's Gascony. Ducks and geese by the million are force-fed with corn for the sake of the dinner plate, their livers swelling hideously from...
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Gascony
; ...take a dawn stroll in the gentle hills of Gascony. This little-considered area of France...far escaped the touch of mass tourism. Gascony is the home of Armagnac, foie gras and...areas and hence no significant pollution. Gascony, it must be said, is not exciting in a...
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Gascony's gastronomic offerings delight
; ...realized that the gastronomic temptations of Gascony were formidable. My wife suddenly gave...the next three weeks. The problem with Gascony is the sheer impossibility to stay focused...enough? Try a myriad of local Armagnacs, Gascony's answer to Cognac. The producers are...
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