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Scarcely
a century ago, vegetables were our
staple diet. The Vilmorin seed
catalogue included at the time a
surprising number of varieties of
cabbages, lettuces, turnips, beans…
offering an incredible diversity
compared with what we have nowadays.
Nutritionists are unanimous: we must
eat more fruit and vegetables, for
vitamins, fibre, antioxidants etc.
Vegetables are excellent for our
health.
For years, here at Valloires, we
have been showing visitors how to
enjoy the colours and the scents of
plants; we decided recently to
illustrate their flavour by creating
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Soup :
With a different soup each day, hot
or chilled, based on fresh seasonal
vegetables or flowers, the Valloires
soup also goes down well with
children. It makes us go back in
time to when soup was the staple
diet in France. |
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Pancakes
Vegetables in spring and mushrooms
in autumn, kitchen garden cookery in
tune with the seasons.
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Fruit pies :
Caramelised apples or pears with
traditionally-made ice cream from
the region.
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Surprises :
rose sorbet, violet “kir”
aperitif, walnut wine, iced tea made
from garden herbs… generous Nature
in all her forms can be seen from
the beginning to the end of the meal
at Valloires.
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