I can’t believe we haven’t done this before.
Among Hung and Leah’s photos on our Loire Valley tour last June, there were a lot of photos of food.
Some French regions are particularly noted for their distinctive food – Burgundy, Dordogne, Provence would all fit into that category. But the Loire Valley doesn’t really have an extensive distinctive cuisine. I try to encourage Chain Gangers to try a Sandre filet in a beurre blanc sauce at least once during our tour – the only classic Loire Valley dish I can think of, and well-worth the trouble (that’s a pike-perch, or a zander, to you and me).
If you want to introduce yourself to a buerre blanc sauce, here’s a recipe for you. But beyond that, I’ve always thought of food in the Loire Valley as ordinary.
But then I found myself lingering over these photos of the food we ate on a Loire tour last June. There are 38 photos, and we only have 7 dinners together, so there was a bit of duplication going on. But I’m going to do this again on our other tours – a photographic diary of the food we eat.
I’ve put all the food photos in an Album on Flickr, so you can see them all together by clicking here. I asked one of my nieces to select her 5 favourite 5 photos, to illustrate the album, and here they are.
I reckon Marc Alton, my food guru (Chain Ganger from Florida), could probably tell you the month of this tour – that’s a lot of strawberries and asparagus, which the chefs would only have chosen because they’re good. So asparagus and strawberries were in season, and they only cross-over in one month – so it’s June! Is that right, Marc?
Please. let me know what you think, and I’d be absolutely thrilled to receive any food photos from your Chain Gang tours.
I’m going to do this again. The Dordogne will look very, very different (except maybe for the strawberries)!
Click on any of these images to enlarge the photos, and follow this link to see all the photos on Flickr.
