Canard Sauvage au Genièvre

When I am in France, I spend much of my time living in a small hamlet in the southern Ardèche. The cottage I use has a vineyard on one side and a rolling field of lavender on the other. Behind the house the hillside is covered with the low-growing maquis, or scrub, of Provence. This is where I collect most of the herbs for my cooking – the wild thyme or serpolet, wild mint, rosemary and fennel. The tallest herbs are the grey-green juniper trees and in August I pick handfuls of blue b