Le piano gastronome

Big day today, my Lacanche piano gastronome arrived. That’s my new range cooker. It seems an age since we ordered it, back in July when we’d first arrived in France.

The Lacanche factory in Burgundy had been closed during the first confinement in France, so were only just open again at the time, and behind on their orders. And with confinement firmly in mind I think we were very lucky to have arranged for delivery and installation today, as another day later and we could be waiting another month. The reason being that last night M. Macron announced a second confinement starting tonight and lasting for a minimum of one month. All of France are to be confined to their homes, only travelling out for essentials, medical reasons, exercise and work if they cannot work from home.

Christophe and the guys arrived about 9am. It was good to see the team of four working seamlessly together. It is quite a big item to be delivering and installing so it was really good to see the care and consideration they were taking with it. There was an air of excitement from all as they moved it in and unpacked it for me to see. I have to say it is rather a gorgeous cooker, and I can’t wait to start cooking on it. I wonder what dishes will be created on it during lockdown, there may be moments when I will need to be a little bit creative, especially as I have limited pans. The plan was to go to Troyes next week to buy some for use on an induction hob. But confinement has scuppered that idea.

Starting to look like a kitchen