Category: Life in Poitou-Charentes
A growing market
Maraîchères have a long tradition in the Poitou-Charentes but the last decades have seen the number of market gardeners sliding. But a change in consumer demand has prompted a reversal in the decline with younger folk picking up a fork and spade WORDS: REBECCA LAWN PHOTOS: RACHEL LOOS As a child, Alain Grondain remembers helping his [...]
Welcome to the Poitou-Charente’s first hypercave
Two men have combined their love of wine and their commercial know-how to create the first supermarket ‘hypercave’ or specialist wine shop in the Poitou-Charentes.
Make mine a lobster! The Duhomard apéritif from Thouars
The Thouarsais are proud of an apéritif inspired by a blague eighty years ago…
P’tit Train of Île d’Oléron – chips with every train
What happens to all that oil your frites are cooked in? If you’re on Île d’Oléron, finds Rebecca Lawn, it becomes fuel to drive the island’s major tourist attraction…
Glossary of Poitou-Charentes food and drink
An explanation of the terms you are likely to come across when shopping for food and drink in Poitou-Charentes. Plus a bit of help when buying bread and ordering a steak!
World class oysters
The plump Marennes – Oléron oyster (huitre) is considered among the best in the world. Grown in the protected salt flats along the Atlantic coast, it has a taste that is more delicate than those raised in the open sea.
Speciality vinegars of the Poitou-Charentes
The region offers some distinctive vinegars that are well worth checking out.
The wines of Poitou-Charentes
In one of those accidents of geography that shape destinies, the Poitou-Charentes finds itself sandwiched between two of the world’s great wine-making areas; Bordeaux to the south and the Lore Valley to the north.
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