The Chateau

This is the Chateau de La Napoule.


By a long, strange chain of events, I wound up cooking here for a month in the summer of 1987.


There's definitely something to be said for cooking in a kitchen with big windows overlooking the Mediterranean, to say nothing of having one's food served on the large patio at the right of the picture. Much of the patio is planted in rosemary, some of which is cut into topiary. Throw in a couple of bottles of Bellet, a lovely white from the hills above Nice which is a prototypical "doesn't travel well" wine, and it's hard to imagine anything much nicer.