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French cuisine can be delicious and varied in so many ways but not if you are a vegetarian or live in the Poitou Charentes region, writes blogger Robert Bullock.
Depending on the chef’s culinary skills -- and please bear in mind most of the most talented French chefs have been exported – it can be a variety of tasty wild mushrooms, cooked and seasoned to perfection or flavoursome local cheeses. You can also avail yourself of a self service salad bar which will provide you with a fantastic meal. 
Robert Bullock is a British children's writer. He lived in the Poitou Charente area of South West France for seven years. His first book is Noah Ramsbottom and the Cave Elves. His second book Sam Marsh the Viking King was released at the end of 2009. His website is www.ninnylizard.com. Robert is currently touring Britain giving readings of his first book, and is available to visit schools, libraries or youth groups in France.
I'm somewhat taken aback by Robert Bullock's dismissal of the standard of food in Poitou-Charentes and particularly in Deux-Sèvres, where I spent a delightful year as a student teacher in 1969/70.
I was introduced to it as "Le pays de la bonne chère", and a region of excellent food it proved to be. It mattered little that only "le tourteau fromagé" (this is the most common proper name for it, by the way) and Pineau des Charentes were the 'local' delicacies: just about all the other dishes I sampled, courtesy of kind local friends, changed my view of food for ever - and much for the better.
(The "tourteau" is, in any case, not so local as the article would have us believe - it exists in the Vendée and elsewhere in Poitou.)
I suspect that, if one is a vegetarian by choice, one will not be too happy with what's on offer in any region of the country, as experience with a quarter century of UK school tour groups has shown.
For the record, I can buy the "tourteau fromagé" in my local supermarket here in Paris, so it is, in fact, 'exported'. And I recall seeing, if not buying, a Pineau des Charentes which was on sale in Belfast, so...
Apart from that, a generally useful article, for which thanks.
John C
I'm somewhat taken aback by Robert Bullock's dismissal of the standard of food in Poitou-Charentes and particularly in Deux-Sèvres, where I spent a delightful year as a student teacher in 1969/70.
I was introduced to it as "Le pays de la bonne chère", and a region of excellent food it proved to be. It mattered little that only "le tourteau fromagé" (this is the most common proper name for it, by the way) and Pineau des Charentes were the 'local' delicacies: just about all the other dishes I sampled, courtesy of kind local friends, changed my view of food for ever - and much for the better.
(The "tourteau" is, in any case, not so local as the article would have us believe - it exists in the Vendée and elsewhere in Poitou.)
I suspect that, if one is a vegetarian by choice, one will not be too happy with what's on offer in any region of the country, as experience with a quarter century of UK school tour groups has shown.
For the record, I can buy the "tourteau fromagé" in my local supermarket here in Paris, so it is, in fact, 'exported'. And I recall seeing, if not buying, a Pineau des Charentes which was on sale in Belfast, so...
Apart from that, a generally useful article, for which thanks.
John C
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