Paru le 15/10/2010 | Relié 207 pages
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recipes by Christopher Coutanceau | photographs by Jacques Villégier | translation by Mireille Vinot and Carolyn Witheridge Green
Halfway between a recipe book and a tourist guide, this book offers you an original and delicious journey into the Charente-Maritime terroir's. The reader is invited to share restaurateur Christopher Coutanceau's address book, and meet the producers he has been working with for many years, his friends and to discover his favourite things.
Those who appreciate the very best in food and drink will find in this tour local products and an enticement to travel to an area that is rich in surprises. These addresses are a guarantee of quality. They are also the means to discover an area with its traditions, markets and events through products, professions and visits associated with food and drink.
This book is also a very practical guide to the different prize-winning local specialities. Road maps are included to help would-be explorers to discover some of the best addresses in the unmissable world of fish. However this book is also a gastronomic reference book. Through about forty illustrated recipes, Christopher Coutanceau shows how to use these flavours.
These original and easy to follow recipes, based on the different products presented in the book, are so many invitations to enrich in a simple and practical way your discovery of truffles, mussels from Charron, potatoes from Ile de Ré, scallops from La Rochelle, oysters from Marennes-Oléron, and of course the fabulous Petrossian's caviar....
Alexandre Le Boulc'h, a journalist with the Sud Ouest Group (Charente Libre), is the author of Flavours of Charente-Maritime, the fourth in an original collection of which he launched the first book in 2002. Following the Cognac, Champagne and Bordeaux areas, he offers you here a resolutely human and modern vision of the Charentes terroirs.
