What is the Cuisine of the Loire Valley?

Salads, or more precisely, salades composées, are one of the unsung heroes of French cuisine. The most well known to anglophones is salade nicoise, but you can get delicious and satisfying salads all over France. In the Loire Valley the regional salad is called Salade Tourangelle and includes morcels of slow cooked belly pork. Lettuce is not a garnish here, it is meant to be eaten, and tomatoes are something you look forward to in the late summer when they are ripe and full of flavour. Out of season tomatoes are not consumed much by most people, although these days they are available. Come and sample the salads of the Loire Valley when you book a tour with us!

Homegrown cherry tomatoes in our potager.

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