Apidis: A Family Affair
APIDIS SAS ( Apiculture Production Innovation Distribution) is a family business specializing in the production, packaging, and marketing of selected honeys, confections, and pastry products made with honey.
Coufidou produces all of our fine Pruneaux d’Agen (Prunes of Agen, France). One of five co-ops within l’Union des Pruniculteurs de France (Union of Prune Growers in France, or UPF), Coufidou is a cooperative of the first quality.
In 1969, visionary couple François and Maggy Doucet founded François Doucet Confiseur in the small village of Oraison, France. François' family had a rich tradition in confectionery dating back to his great-grandfather who created la pâte de...
In about 1996, Kitty Keller was in Northwestern France visiting the mother of a dear friend of hers, who lived in Anjou. This charming elderly Frenchwoman made her a lovely, three-course lunch featuring fleur de sel from neighboring Brittany. One...
Historical Beginnings
The origins of Banyuls wine—the famous port-like wine with a French appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC)—is firmly entrenched in history: the region’s vineyards were originally planted by the...
Surprisingly, Brittany, France, with her robust dairy tradition, had no cheese culture until recently. In times gone by, les vieux Britons (the old folks) even referred to cheese as laezh brein ("rotten milk"). Guérande...
The family passion
Piment d’Espelette, AOP is a powder made from a particular spicy red pepper specific to the Basque region of France—grown as part of the housewives’ potager (kitchen garden), from seeds that originally...
The nougat from the village of Montélimar (in the Avergne-Rhône-Alps region of France) is world-renowned thanks to its exquisite quality—and to a highway. Every summer, hungry tourists—including jet-setters and later, rock...
