THE CHARENTE-MARITIME: LAND OF FLAVOURS, TRADITIONS AND BEACHES
Discover the gastronomy of Charente-Maritime, typical meals, local products, local producers. Here, flavour is a religion!
Craftsmen work every day to preserve traditions and offer you local specialities. Mills are as much a part of the landscape as distilleries, oyster and mussel beds, cattle and goat farms and the production of cheese, vegetables and fruit.
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Sturia Caviar: the flagship brand of France's leading caviar producer, Sturgeon.
05 46 70 09 52 - Pisciculture - 29 rue Carillon 17240 Saint Fort sur Gironde -16 minutes by car - itinerary here
Elaboration of Caviar - read here
100 years of French Caviar History - read here
Renowned throughout the world, the Marennes-Oléron oyster
The Imperial Marsh Shrimp - Ferme Huitre Imperial- 17 Route du Marais, 17113 Mornac-sur-Seudre
The Bouchot mussel - from June onwards
Walnut Oil and Flour
Le Brulot charentais
The Twig Cakes
The Pineau des Charentes: legend has it that it was made by chance. A winegrower would have inadvertently poured grape must into a barrel containing Cognac brandy.
It is only many years later that he discovered this clear and sunny wine. Pineau des Charentes was born.
Cognac
Cocktails:
Summit - prepared in 3 minutes - Cognac, lemon, ginger, cucumber and lemonade
Pineaujito: The mojito with Pineau des Charentes: a glass, ice cubes, mint, limes, sparkling water and a little Pineau. That's all there is to it.
The Lady Bee by Pineau des Charentes: Pineau des Charentes, dry white wine, lemon juice, honey, thyme, sparkling water
Pineaucillin: White Pineau des Charentes, Vieux La Mauny rum, lemon juice, apple shrub (explanation in the recipe), ginger.
The Safran de Charente Maritime
The Safran de Marennes, to be discovered from mid-October, when the harvest begins...
The truffle of Charente-Maritime
The Charentes truffle: Truffle Market - 16 Rue des Fossés, 16200 Jarnac
Pick the strawberries in the fields and pay after you pick. Attractive price!
Merchantwebsitethat allows you to place your orders simply, to come and pick them up at the farm in drive, while waiting for other services to come...
18 minutes by car - 17 km
Cotard Alain - 26 Rue de la Chade, 17260 Villars-en-Pons - route here
The lightning of Charente-Maritime
L'éclade : the fashionable moulds of Chez Nous :
The moulds should be erected vertically and spirally on a wooden board. They are then covered with a good thickness of pine needles, which are then set on fire!
Cooking time: 10 minutes, i.e. until the mussels open slightly.
Where can we enjoy a good éclade? At the restaurant L'éclade sur Marennes - Attention: if you want to taste an éclade you have to book : +33 6 23 61 67 32 -
ROUTE DES MARTYRS - MARENNES itinerary here
The pan-fried cagouilles à la charentaise (snails stuffed with meat and simmered with white wine, carrots, a layer of cognac, tomato, bay leaf, thyme, onion, garlic).
The early potato of the island of Ré
Salt: the white gold of the marshes
Le Manslois, a 100% Charentais fresh cheese!
Legrillon charentais : The lean parts of the pork (shoulder, ham...) are browned, seasoned and then candied for hours in fat. Crickets are eaten cold on a slice of bread. In Charentes, it is not uncommon for them to accompany a dish of oysters and tradition has it that on the 1st May, one can taste the Charentais cricket with a sprig of aillet (young garlic shoot).
Charentaise poultry: Barbezieux's capon!
Chalais veal
Cheesecake
The Charentaise nut
Cream puffs
The Charentais melon
Charentes-Poitou AOC butter
La Cornuelle (triangular biscuit in shortbread dough studded with grains of pink and white aniseed)
The Charentaise galette, known as the "Goulebenèze" galette: with a soft texture, it has been enthroned on festive tables for several centuries...
The cabbage patch
The angelica
The curd
Visit the Basin of Marennes-Oléron and the Oyster Cityrue des Martyrs Chenal de la Cayenne, Marennes.
From July 11th to August 28th, porpose "Les Ostréales" (Cultural Event and Walks )
The corinette
The cruchade
La daube saintongeaise
Chicken Tourtière
The Saintongeais cake
Veal shank with pineau
Le jaud au pineau
The little grey
The cognac parfait
The petatou
Cagouilles à la saintongeaise
Broken wood
Get the flavour guide from here
