MUSEUM OF FOIE GRAS
DISCOVER 4500 YEARS Of HISTORY OF the FOIE GRAS OF EGYPTIANS TO OUR DAYS

The Museum of the Foie gras is located at Souleilles, typical farm of the edges of Quercy, between Lot and the Garonne. It is installed in the old barn of the farm on the slopes of the commune of Frespech.
It is a unique achievement in France. It recalls the history of the Foie gras: From Egyptians to the Romans, Jews of Bohemia to the famous tables of the 19th century how was born this dish of exception, becoming with the passing of the centuries one of the most beautiful expressions of the gastronomy.
Souleilles is a farm of production where Yves and Genevieve Boissière, raise and cook ducks gras.
Attached to this occitan country, they began again and developed the traditional breeding led formerly by the grand father.
IThey cultivate the same knowledge there to make: that of the stockbreeder who loves his animals and takes care of their wellbeing.
To cook they drew from the family receipts of the grand' mothers

"the Museum is the testimony of our past, and we continue, with our manner, to write the history of duck and the foie gras, started a few tens of centuries earlier. It is the fruit of successive innovations: the domestication of the wild birds, salting, the confectionnary, then the arrival of corn, canning, maintaining the conservation vacuum.
It is a part of our inheritance, just as our language the occitan ".