Yes, also one of the traditional dishes of the Berry. I'm doing a little sleuthing around the world Fanny and Marie ignore -- one of the best books written about France in English is written about a hamlet 12 minutes away from Crozon sur Vauvre. So excellent, voices of the ahistoric recovered from the early 19th century from letters the writer found addressed to a woman of the village dead 50 years. She tracked them down for an amazing portrait -- her village Chassignoles, did not have a road or even a farm track leading to it until.....well into the 20th century. This was France. Also awaiting delivery of an obscure cookbook to swim all the way from France in Solignat patois which I don't speak either. Yay.
I love to think of your beautiful produce.The book, Celestine, features an old villager who turned down every opportunity to leave Chassignoles (having been something of a WWII hero). He sold the author her house and told her he would do a veg garden on the "good bit of earth" at the bottom of the yard. Which he did for 20 years until his death. It was the earth of Chassignoles that he loved and could not leave.
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I wasn’t expecting either.
