Recipes from South-West France?

Will check that one out too, Tricia. Looks as though I have a lot to choose from! Thank you all for the suggestions

Elizabeth David's French Provincial Cooking - covers other parts of France, but it's one of those books I can read over and over, I like her style of writing.

Rick Stein, following his TV prog about a narrowboat journey along the Canal du Midi.
The melon, tomato and cucumber salad with a mint dressing is a real family favourite.

We have always used Paula Wolfert: The Cooking of South-West France. Very good and well-written, with lots of background information.

No, it was this one:

www.amazon.co.uk/Recipes-Perigord-Recettes-Ma-Grand-Mere/dp/2862533904/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401921478&sr=1-1&keywords=perigord+recipes

but thank you for the link - I haven't seen that one. I will have a good look at the samples and see if I could manage it! I was hoping for an English version but there isn't one.

I could kick myself, I gave away a whole set of regional books and I can't even remember who published them, but they were ancient.

Was the one you saw this?

www.amazon.co.uk/Carnets-cuisine-Du-P%C3%A9rigord-l%C2%92Elys%C3%A9e/dp/2227486074

It's lovely. Have you clicked on a sample of the book to see if you can understand it? I think that you could cope, because you would only have to look up each word once and write it down and you would have made your own cookery terms dictionary.