France’s Flemish Cuisine – France Today | EUROtoday
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Along the coast you are spoilt for alternative with seafood equivalent to prawns, scallops and numerous fish. One foodstuff the northerners take actually critically is their fries. All over the area you may discover fries shacks (in chalets, caravans and sheds) vying to give you the easiest chips – crispy on the skin and smooth within the center. Purists insist it’s best to use the Bintje number of potato. Chefs disagree it is higher to cook dinner them in beef fats or vegetable oil. Last yr, La Friterie Mestré in Lille even gained the annual fries world championship.
Cheeses punch above their weight right here, too. Aside from the aforementioned Maroilles, there may be Bergues and the very smelly Vieux-Lille (or Puant, as they nickname it). For dessert, do not miss the waffles (waffles) of their numerous varieties, particularly the Méert waffles which have turn out to be a neighborhood establishment.
When it involves liquid refreshment, this far north it is beer slightly than wine which dominates. As effectively because the extra established breweries – Pelforth is maybe the very best identified -there are over 100 micro-brewers throughout the division, creating all kinds of artisanal beers: blonde, amber, black… there’s one thing for everybody.
From France Today Magazine