Description

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....