Le safari historico-gastronomique en Poitou-Charentes

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Catch the flight of the cheese crab, climb the hill of cartilages, dive in a diving suit into the boiling pot of eels, descend into the littered cave, boost the barrel of pineau des Charentes to another planet, check the orbit of the farci poitevin, discover the hidden side of the petatou, leap wildly onto the broyé du Poitou… Glen Baxter pulls out all the stops in his historical-gastronomic safari in Poitou-Charentes. The famous English explorer uncovers the products that give the region its flavor, these secret recipes born from industrious imagination and popular know-how that he elevates to objects of desire, even covetousness, as aesthetic feats. Undertaken in the year 2000 for the magazine L’Actualité Poitou-Charentes, this safari creates beautiful encounters, such as that of the writer Alberto Manguel, who recounts here the "exuberant gambols" of Glen Baxter.