VISIT-POITOU Poitou Charentes, Comité Départemental Tourisme en Deux-Sèvres, CDT 79

Great recipes from our past

There’s something here for every taste ! The Deux-Sèvres is a land of country flavours and gourmet foods, where goat cheese and kid coexist in savoury harmony, for the delight of one’s tastebuds !

A tradition of taste

With their melons, goat cheeses, fouaces, mojettes, pommes clochard, smooth and tender parthenais beef, eel, rabbit, angelica... the Deux-Sèvres invite you to a gourmet symphony. Using traditional recipes, the chefs of the Deux-Sèvres are able to concoct a wide array of original and savoury dishes.

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Get your tastebuds ready for a treat !

• Local produce : the terroir transmuted.
  In their farms or workshops, alchemists are at work turning everything they touch into pure delight.
  Nature is their trade.

• Gourmet Eating
  Some tables - we call the bonnes tables - are made for fine eating and nothing else
  Discover a selection of addresses to revive your tastebuds and delight your stomach

• A palette of flavours : something for every taste
  Melon, charcuterie, breads and cakes, lamb, lumas (snails), beef, apples, wines, fish and beans...
  The Deux-Sèvres have a product for every hungry palate

• Shops and markets : opt for small and local rather than hyper and global.
  The local markets and small farms are places where one can freely discuss life in general and fine foods in particular
  Find where to buy local products

• The Confréries : fraternities and guilds fighting for the Honour of Taste !
  Some local food protection societies strive to actively defend culinary traditions and bury our bad eating habits forever in the peat bogs.
  Join the defenders of taste

• Traditional recipes : secret formulas.
  Discover the many recipes composing the local gourmet heritage. When kindly asked, the Deux-Sèvres cooking experts will generously share some of their secret recipes.

• Tourist paths : the roads not taken
  Let yourself wander along the pathways of gourmet tourism running through the département.
  Stray off the road and give your palate a treat

Gourmet Eating
The Best Restaurants Of all tables - round ones, square ones, low ones, etc. - the most interesting are those dedicated to gourmet eating. Head straight towards our finest restaurants !