Recipes From The World Of Three Pines

The Nature Of The Feast

“It is with immeasurable pleasure that, many years on from imagining that first book and those first meals in Three Pines, I present to you this small collection of recipes. This is a heartfelt thank you, my friend. For finding the table, and sitting down. And enjoying the feast with Armand and Clara and Myrna and all the villagers.”

– Louise Penny

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“I wanted you to feel what it’s like to live in Québec. And to do that I needed to make the books sensuous, to engage all your senses. So that you smell the musky wood smoke and feel the scrape of the cold against your cheeks. You hear the rustle of the leaves and see with clarity the village green. And you taste the food. That glorious Québécois cuisine.”

Louise Penny
Louise Penny, The Nature of the Feast

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Three Pines Inspired Meals

Calling All Three Pines Foodies

Have you cooked, baked or bought any of the food mentioned in any of the Three Pines books? There is something special about all the mouth-watering meals described. Have you enjoyed a Three Pines inspired meal?

Browse the extensive list of foods mentioned in the Three Pines series (See the list below) to get inspired and visit the Louise Penny Book Club group to find other members who love everything about the series.

You can also share your own food creations and recipes.

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Three Pines Pie made by Sandy Taylor Kempton
Three Pines Pie made by Sandy Taylor Kempton

Thanks to our amazing Louise Penny Book Club Friend, Jordan Palesano DuBois, we have an incredible list of foods and drinks from the books.

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“When I first started thinking about the books that would become the Chief Inspector Gamache novels there was a great deal I did not know. But, there were a few things I knew with certainty.

I knew I wanted you to not so much read the story, as to become a part of it. To walk beside Clara and Gabri and Ruth and Armand. To sit at the same table. To engage in the conversation. To pass the bread and take ladles of soup from the tureen.

I wanted you to feel what it’s like to live in Québec. And to do that I needed to make the books sensuous, to engage all your senses. So that you smell the musky woodsmoke and feel the scape of the cold against your cheeks. You hear the rustle of the leaves and see with clarity the village green.

And you taste the food. That glorious Québécois cuisine.

What better way to engage not simply the senses but the soul, than by including you in the meals shared by the friends in Three Pines? The lunches at the bistro in front of the fireplace. The dinners at Clara’s, with the baskets of fresh baguettes and Myrna’s extravagant bouquets. And those meals sitting at the long pine table in the Gamaches’ kitchen.”

– Louise Penny