Flavorful experiences -- and trash talking -- on the menu at Gascony cooking school

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‘I was looking for a good place to park my boat’ is how Southern California’s Kate Hill explains what brought her to southwestern France and inspired her to buy an abandoned 18th century brick-and-stone farmhouse and turn it into a B&B and cooking school. And here’s what she thinks about chefs: ‘Chefs usually know a lot about cooking but often don’t know anything about food, and my school is a culinary retreat where students, chefs and artisan-food producers meet and work together.’ Read more about Hill’s adventures here.