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Crossing from Aragón into France brings you directly into garbure territory. In this field report from Béarn, the substantial farmhouse pot of cabbage, beans, local ham, and duck confit is prepared in proper sequence — beans given their first hour with a meaty ham bone, the base built in duck fat, potatoes and cabbage timed carefully, and confit added at the close. Local wisdom holds that a garbure is ready when the spoon stands upright. Filmed on the valley floor beneath snow-covered mountains, this is regional cookery as provision rather than performance — documented under the Culinary Academy of the Pyrenees.

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  1. I love everything about your videos. Your accent, the way you speak is relaxing, your production, the background music and of course the food!

  2. I like a toasted slice of bread with a slathering of melted cheese on my Garbure. Yummy!

  3. God, what a breath of fresh air. I wish I was in the countryside. Even in the southeastern US, which is perhaps not as associated with clean air and nature as the Pyrenees, few things beat just being in the sun in a meadow on a cool day, with clean good water, decent hot food, and good company

  4. Bonjour Messieur,
    Je suis né et j'habite dans un petit village gersois à la limite des hautes Pyrénées. Je suis tombé au hasard sur votre vidéo et je peux vous assurer qu'elle m'a rappeller de tres bon souvenir. Merci de faire briller à l'internationale notre culture gastronomique paysanne pyrénéenne avec tant de passion !
    Et comme disait ma grand-mère : "La garbura, mei aquò còi, mei aquò ei bon !"
    Amitiés.

  5. Not significantly different from many economical dishes cooked across northern Spain and Portugal, But the addition of preserved duck, not in these recipes, makes yours too expensive. I will keep eating ths Caldo Verde from my refrigerator

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