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‘Joyful, life-affirming, grasping. I beloved it’ – DIANA HENRY
‘Whether or not you’re an avid bike owner, a Francophile, a grasping intestine, or just an appreciator of impeccable writing – this e-book will get you hooked’ – YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km throughout France searching for the definitive variations of traditional French dishes.
A inexperienced bike drunkenly weaves its manner up a cratered hill in the late-morning solar, the gears grinding painfully, like a pepper mill operating on empty. The rider crouched on high in a rictus of ache has slowed to a gravity-defying crawl when, from someplace close by, the whine of a nasal engine breaks by way of her ragged respiratory.
A battered van seems behind her, the customary cigarette dangling from its driver’s-side window… as he passes, she casually reaches down for some water, smiling broadly within the method of somebody having nearly too a lot enjoyable. ‘No sweat,’ she says jauntily to his retreating exhaust pipe. ‘Pas de problème, monsieur.’
A land of superb landscapes, and much more superb meals, France is a spot constructed for biking and for consuming, too – a rustic giant sufficient to provide any journey an epic high quality, however with a bakery on each nook. Right here, you may go from seaside to mountain, Atlantic to Mediterranean, polder to Pyrenees, and style the distinction each time you cease for lunch. In case you make it to lunch, that’s…
Half travelogue, half meals memoir, all love letter to France, One Extra Croissant for the Highway follows ‘the nation’s taster in chief’ Felicity Cloake’s very personal Tour de France, biking 2,300km throughout France searching for culinary perfection; from Tarte Tatin to Cassoulet through Poule au Pot, and Tartiflette. Every of the 21 ‘phases’ concludes with Felicity placing this new discovered data to good use in a recent and definitive recipe for every dish – the fruits of her rigorous and thorough investigative work on behalf of all of our style buds.
Writer : Mudlark (September 1, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 000837726X
ISBN-13 : 978-0008377267
Merchandise Weight : 2.31 kilos
Dimensions : 5.08 x 0.87 x 7.8 inches
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