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THE PLEASURES AND DELIGHTS OF LOCAL
GASTRONOMY
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Did you know that the Quiche is the most popular
dish in France ? But there’s a lot more to Lorraine's
cuisine than quiche. And that means more than just Lorraine’s
hotpot or “Potée”, even if that alone
is a delight, especially in winter.
Food lovers will adore the variety
of Lorraine’s products. Its lakes and rivers abound
with carp, pikeperch, pike and trout that are cooked
in vin gris [a type of light-coloured rosé wine],
or with cream and chopped bacon, or with beer, or with
white wine and onions, or poached.
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Delicious
fare is also obtained from the woods and forests, such
as wild boar and red wine stew, venison served with
cranberries or various wild mushrooms (Côtes de
Meuse truffles, “chanterelle”, “cepe”,
“morille” [morel] mushrooms), and rabbit
in mirabelle plum aspic.
The region’s farms produce a
rich assortment of highly-renowned pork meat products:
pies and pâtés, black pudding, suckling
pig in aspic, salt-cured pork belly, bacon, saucisson
[dried/smoked sausage], hams, and fresh cheeses that
are often prepared with herbs or matured to achieve
a distinctive taste, among them géromé,
brouère and vacherin.
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Beer is also much
favoured in Lorraine, and is used in a large number
of recipes.
The Route de la Bière [Beer Route] in Lorraine
offers an enticing tour of a number of sites, including
the Musée Européen de la Bière
[European Beer Museum] in Stenay, which is the biggest
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tea time, succumb to some of Lorraine’s sweet
delicacies, such as Nancy macaroons (delicious biscuits
made of a delicate mixture of egg white, sugar and almonds)
or Boulay macaroons (much liked by General de Gaulle),
or Bar-le-Duc redcurrant jam de-seeded with a goose
quill (nicknamed “Lorraine caviar”), or
Nancy bergamot orange – certified to be the genuine
article by the Lorraine Label – or cracknel biscuits
and “visitandines” from Nancy, or the renowned
madeleine de Commercy, or the less well-known but just
as tasty Liverdun madeleine, or Verdun sugared almonds,
or Plombières ice-cream.
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