Saturday, October 22, 2022 – A visit to the market, a cooking class and a tour of the Hotel Dieu Hospices.

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The Saturday market in Beaune.
These are truffle hunting dogs.
After we met the other six people in our group cooking class we shopped in the market and then went back to the chefs house. Until a couple of years ago this was her garage. Now it is the classroom where she does her cooking classes.
The chef, Adeline, assigned two person teams to different parts of the menu. Sara and I were given this assignment and the fish course.
Adeline gave us the pre measured ingredients for these savory biscuit.
We picked the herbs from her herb garden.
These light and airy cheese biscuits were phenomenal!
This is the fish dish that Sara and I prepared.
Sara preparing the savory biscuits.
This is the group busy preparing their assigned dishes. They are all from Chicago.
This is the first course. A poached egg with a red wine sauce. Absolutely delicious.
This is the second course. Our pan seared fish with mushrooms and heirloom carrots and a carrot purée. Fantastic fish!
Dessert was an apple cobbler with homemade chocolate and salted caramel ice cream.
The wine we had while we were preparing our courses and at our feast. The cooking class was a real hoot. I had such a good time and the lunch at the end was marvelous.

After the cooking class we toured the Hotel Dieu Hospices. This is a hospital that was built almost 800 years ago and was a working hospital until recently. Rhe hospital owns about 100 acres of vineyards in and around Beaune and auctions their wine to raise money for the hospital in Beaune.

This is the original building.
This is the newer building.
This is the great hall where they tended the patients in beds against the walls. They ate their meals at tables running down the center of the hall.
This is a memorial to the soldiers from Beaune who died in World War I. Each side of this memorial is dedicated to one of the major battles in World War I and the solders from Beaune who died in that battle. After the war ended there were very few soldiers who were alive to return to Beaune.
We had a charcuterie plate and a glass of wine for dinner.

That’s it for this evening. I hope you had a good day wherever you are. Goodnight from Beaune, France.

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I've been retired from the Union Pacific Railroad since 2017. I've been planning to walk the Camino for about 6 months and can't wait to get started.

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