France - Eating and Drinking – The Secret Places

Being a country renowned for it’s superb gastronomy, there are hundreds of secret places to go and sample some of the country’s best food. The best way to find the secret places is to ask the locals – anything listed in the major guides are always going to be teeming with tourists. A gastronomically proud yet little visited area is the Franche Comte. It’s local delicacies include Comte cheese, produced for more than 1,000 years in the region and wines from vineyards in Arbois, L'Etoile and Cotes de Jura, not to mention Kirsch, a liqueur produced from locally grown cherries. Similarly, check out Quercy-Périgord. It’s ingrained rural simplicity produces wonderfully good food like the "confit de canard". The trick is to understand what each region specialises in and then hunt down the goods. Discover what makes the region tick and eat and drink your heart out.

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