<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/mmm2008-07-24_12.50/rsspretty.aspx?rssquery=en-US;http%3a%2f%2fzhongbreizh.spaces.live.com%2fcategory%2fAliments%2bet%2bboissons%2ffeed.rss' version='1.0'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:msn="http://schemas.microsoft.com/msn/spaces/2005/rss" xmlns:live="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Zhong Breizh: Aliments et boissons</title><description /><link>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&amp;_c=BlogPart&amp;partqs=catAliments%2bet%2bboissons</link><language>en-US</language><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:15:08 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:15:08 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Microsoft Spaces v1.1</generator><docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs><ttl>60</ttl><cf:parentRSS>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/blog/feed.rss</cf:parentRSS><live:type>blogcategory</live:type><live:identity><live:id>-2871113668024776636</live:id><live:alias>zhongbreizh</live:alias></live:identity><cf:listinfo><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="typelabel" label="Type" /><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="tag" label="Tag" /><cf:group element="category" label="Category" /><cf:sort element="pubDate" label="Date" data-type="date" default="true" /><cf:sort element="title" label="Title" data-type="string" /><cf:sort ns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" element="comments" label="Comments" data-type="number" /></cf:listinfo><item><title>the " Beauvais" supremacy</title><link>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!1567.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;un grand coup de chapeau une nouvelle fois, à nos amis du &amp;quot;Jardin Gourmand&amp;quot; de Lorient  qui viennent de remporter haut la main , the &amp;quot;best woman chef cook of the year&amp;quot; , épreuve qui se tenait à Londres , capitale qui a sans doute beaucoup à apprendre de notre culture gastronomique mais je m'égare&lt;a href="http://tkfiles.storage.live.com/y1pTOvLiPtzseMhno2HlJ-x2i5bA8UnDxOo7F7uEnq6Jv0s-XxRyyKL_p6mliA5DabVzuX47nZS3nA" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height=200 alt="Nath à Londres" src="http://tkfiles.storage.live.com/y1pTOvLiPtzseMhno2HlJ-x2i5bA8UnDxOo7F7uEnq6Jv0s-XxRyyKL_p6mliA5DabVzuX47nZS3nA" width=292&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ... &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff" size=3&gt;&lt;a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.jardin-gourmand.fr/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;Le Mouvement Pour Une Cuisine Bretonne Trop Bonne&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff" size=3&gt;&lt;a href="http://mpucbtb.jardin-gourmand.fr/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://mpucbtb.jardin-gourmand.fr/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff" size=3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;bravo encore! et à n'en pas douter,  ces aventuriers du bon gout ne vont s'arrêter là ....et c'est tant mieux &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;font color="#0000ff"&gt;SG&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-2871113668024776636&amp;page=RSS%3a+the+%22+Beauvais%22+supremacy&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=zhongbreizh"&gt;</description><comments>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!1567.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!1567.entry</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:08:37 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!1567/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!1567.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2008-04-20T16:08:37Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>la chandeleur et ses mystères</title><link>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!260.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;font size=5&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La Chandeleur, qu´est-ce que c´est ? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;demande le jeune enfant qui entend pour la première fois ce terme&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La Chandeleur?, &lt;/strong&gt;r&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;épondons-nous tous en choeur, &lt;strong&gt;c'est le jour des crêpes!&lt;/strong&gt;  - des crêpes que l'on prépare entre amis, ou entre parents et que l'on fait sauter ou que l'on tourne dans la poêle, tout en tenant dans la main une pièce en or. Parce que réussir cette acrobatie porte bonheur dit le dicton... auquel plus personne ne croit. Mais combien ne sommes-nous pas à essayer quand même, des fois que... pour que l'argent ne manque pas durant l'année à venir, pour que les maladies nous épargnent...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;NB il est aussi possible pour appeler la prospérité de faire atterrir la crêpe sur l'armoire et de l'y laisser toute l'année.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Une fête avant tout religieuse.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;Mais si la coutume fut et reste, dans beaucoup de régions françaises, de préparer des crêpes, ce n'est pas de ce mets que ce jour tient son nom. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;En effet, ce jour est pour les Chrétiens celui de la célébration de la présentation du Christ au Temple et des relevailles de Marie. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;Pendant cet office étaient bénis et allumés de nombreux cierges. Ceux-ci avaient ensuite le pouvoir, lorsqu'ils étaient rallumés pendant un orage, de chasser la foudre, et plus généralement de tenir éloignés les mauvais esprits, les démons, les intempéries.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;&lt;br&gt;Des processions avaient lieu dans les champs et les vignobles, surtout au Moyen Age, mais aussi de l'église à la demeure. Essayez, la prochaine fois: allumez un cierge après l'avoir fait bénir à l'église et rentrez chez vous, en veillant à bien protéger la flamme, car, et retenez bien ceci, si elle s'éteint, vous êtes certain de mourir dans l'année.&lt;br&gt;Sympa non ? &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;     &lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quelles origines?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;L'origine de la Chandeleur est païenne et remonte aux Parentalia romaines: c'est-à-dire à leur fête annuelle en l'honneur des morts, au cours de laquelle ils veillaient à l'aide de cierges et de torches, en honorant Pluton et les dieux &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Chandeleur&amp;quot; vient du mot latin candela - la chandelle - reprise dans l'expression Festa candelarum, fête des chandelles. Il s'agissait également d'une fête en l'honneur du dieu Pan, appelée Lupercales, durant laquelle certains débauchés parcouraient la nuit les rues de Rome en agitant des flambeaux. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;Le pape Gélase Ier, habitué à retaper avec des crêpes les pélerins arrivés à Rome ,décida, en 472, de christianiser cette fête.&lt;br&gt;Suivant Innocent III,  Gélase Ier, la substitua aux Lupercales, fêtes établies en l'honneur de Pan et en fît la fête de la présentation de Jésus au Temple, symbole de lumière. &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elle fut définitevement instituée par le Pape Vigile (VI siècle) pour remplacer la fête de Proserpine que l'on célébrait par des courses aux flambeaux. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt;Maintes origines en tous cas...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face=Garamond size=4&gt;Maintenant, à savoir si lors du dîner de chandeleur que nous organisons, les choses tournent plus à la frénésie bacchanale qu'à la procession religieuse ...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face=Garamond size=4&gt;Steven&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Garamond, Times, Serif" size=4&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=-2871113668024776636&amp;page=RSS%3a+la+chandeleur+et+ses+myst%c3%a8res&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=zhongbreizh"&gt;</description><comments>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!260.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!260.entry</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:45:58 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!260/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!260.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2006-01-20T06:32:27Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Exclusive: never-seen-before deleted parts of article!</title><link>http://zhongbreizh.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D827C154AB9D4844!229.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"&gt;
&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;&lt;font color="#800080"&gt;Les membres de Zhong Breizh prêts à payer de leur personne pour promouvoir la Betagne à Pékin!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;En page 100 du numéro de janvier de &lt;em&gt;&lt;font color="#00ccff"&gt;That's Beijing&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, vous pouvez lire une courte introduction à la gastronomie bretonne. &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thatsbj.com/blog/index.php/2006/01/07/p2802#more2802"&gt;http://www.thatsbj.com/blog/index.php/2006/01/07/p2802#more2802&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;En exclusivité mondiale, et pour ceux que ça intéresse, voici la version intégrale du papier envoyé à Ann Mah. Très modestement, précisons qu´il s´agit de beaucoup de copié-collé, glané ça et là sur la toile. C´est aussi une vision personnelle qui n´engage que son auteure. Par exemple ? Tout le monde ne sera pas d´accord pour appeler une crêpe salée une crêpe salée. J´en connais qui appellent ça une galette. Mais en tant que native de la seule ville au monde a organiser une Fête de la Crêpe (&lt;span dir=ltr&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;&lt;b&gt;fete&lt;/b&gt;delacrepe.free.fr/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;c´est à Gourin tous les ans à la fin du mois de juillet), je suis prête à engager le débat...&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Amicalement, Hélène&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Brittany&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-weight:normal;color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Bretagne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;) is &lt;/font&gt;the most Western land of the European continent. It is a wide peninsula located in the west of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;, hugged by the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;English Channel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; at the north and the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Atlantic Ocean&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; at the west and south. This Northwest corner of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; has long been culturally and geographically distinct from the rest of the country. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; became part of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; relatively late (1532) and under a special status of &amp;quot;foreign province&amp;quot; which was not abolished until the French revolution. Together with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Ireland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Scotland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Isle of Man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Wales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Cornwall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;, and the Spanish Galicia, it is part of the Celtic fringe of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Western Europe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;'s past is entwined with the legends of cities lost beneath the waves and Arthurian forests. &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Modern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; is a French region with a difference. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;The Bretons still have a strong sense of belonging to a well-defined community; and t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;here are few people in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;France&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; as staunchly proud and protective of their culture, their language and traditions as the Bretons. &lt;span&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt;This feeling results in a vivid cultural life, especially as regards music, but also &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;literature, dance, theatre, costume and of course gastronomy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="font-family:Arial"&gt;Breton solidarity can be gauged in the Breton Diaspora, which has been organised for a very long time: Bretons have had a union in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="font-family:Arial"&gt;Canada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="font-family:Arial"&gt; for fourty years!&lt;span style="color:black"&gt;&lt;font face=Arial&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;People from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; have long been travelers by necessity but also by taste and choice. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;In &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; too, Bretons have their association, called &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;Zhong Breizh &lt;/font&gt;(‘&lt;i&gt;Breizh&lt;/i&gt;’ is the name for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; in Breton)&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;When it comes to culinary traditions, there are roughly two &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittanys&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;, with two distinct cuisines: one for the 1,200km-long coast, known as &lt;i&gt;Armor &lt;/i&gt;(meaning 'Land of the Sea') and the other one for its more secretive interior, &lt;i&gt;Argoat&lt;/i&gt; ('Land of the Woods'). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Surrounded on three sides by water, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; is a veritable mine of &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;fish and shellfish&lt;/font&gt;, home of French seafood cuisine. These aquatic delights, not surprisingly, dominate coastal Breton cuisine, starting off with the famed &lt;i&gt;homard à l'armoricaine&lt;/i&gt; (lobster with cream). Other maritime headliners include &lt;i&gt;coquilles St-Jacques&lt;/i&gt; (scallops); &lt;i&gt;cotriade,&lt;/i&gt; a distinctive fish soup with potatoes, onions, garlic, and butter; oysters, crabs, stingray&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:darkblue;font-family:Arial"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;and langoustines, which are something between a large shrimp and a lobster. Breton cuisine also starts to make use of one of the world’s richest variety of marine algae existing along Breton coasts.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-weight:normal;color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-weight:normal;color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; is a leading European region for food industries. C&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-weight:normal;color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;uisine from interior &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-weight:normal;color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-weight:normal;color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; therefore makes full use of its main agricultural resources: v&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;egetables, pork, dairy products and poultry. Popular meals include smoked ham and lamb, frequently served with green kidney beans. The regional &lt;i&gt;ragoût de mouton&lt;/i&gt; (lamb baked for five hours under a layer of roots and herbs) is a must while visiting &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;. Fried eel is a traditional dish in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Nantes, the historical capital of Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-family:Arial"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;But &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;'s national dish remains the &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Crêpe&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/font&gt;(pancake), its most famous food export. You can find a Breton &lt;i&gt;Crêperie&lt;/i&gt; (pancake restaurant) virtually anywhere in the world, including two of them in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;. The dark salt crepe, a thick, buckwheat pancake, is served as a main course. It has a deeper flavor best paired with savory fillings -- like lobster and mushrooms, or the more traditional egg, ham and cheese. A sweet plain and simple crêpe is wafer-thin and made with a lighter batter, served with strawberries and cream, apples in brandy, or chocolate, for example. Accompanied by a glass of Breton cider, they are an ideal light, inexpensive meal; as &lt;i&gt;crêpes dentelles&lt;/i&gt; (lace crepes) they make a delicious dessert. &lt;i&gt;Kouign Ammann&lt;/i&gt; are delectable sugar cakes made from yeast dough, with butter or cream. A &lt;i&gt;far breton&lt;/i&gt; is a warm or cold flanlike dessert made with prunes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-GB style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p style="background:#ebf7f0"&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Cider is t&lt;font face=Arial&gt;&lt;span&gt;he traditional&lt;/span&gt; drink of Brittany, either a rough, still cider, or the &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:#ff33cc;font-family:Arial"&gt;cidre bouché&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; a naturally sparkling cider, sold in tightly-corked bottles. It is available dry &lt;i&gt;(&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:#ff33cc;font-family:Arial"&gt;brut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; or sweeter &lt;i&gt;(&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:#ff33cc;font-family:Arial"&gt;doux&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt; Both are made on the farms where the apples are grown - my grand-father used to make his cider, the best in the world of course. The apple-juice ferments naturally, clouding over and then clearing as it matures. The type of apple, the growing conditions and the way in which the juice is treated after pressing all affect the flavour of the finished product. Cider is still difficult to find in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;Beijing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="color:black;font-family:Arial"&gt;, and once you have managed to find it, it should be enjoyed rapidly. &lt;/span&gt;
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