Sally Clarke Newsletter
October 11, 2024
Autumn 2024
Sally Clarke, 11 October 2024

Sally’s view
Freshly returned from a few days in the Luberon, I find myself dreaming of those clear blue skies, fabulous mountain ranges in the distance, beautiful markets filled with pumpkins, the last of the elongated purple figs, various varieties of grapes, and little punnets of strawberries. In many ways, it was a perfect time to go – tourists were hardly in evidence, and the hilltop villages were returning to some sort of normalcy after the summer months’ hoards.
Maybe we were unlucky, maybe it is a sad fact of life but, unfortunately, it seemed to me that many restaurants and hotel dining rooms there had ‘lost their way’ with simplicity and deliciousness. I came away thinking that perhaps one of the best ways to eat well in this area is to, perhaps, shop from the market and find somewhere to cook it yourself!

elongated purple figs at the farmers’ market
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