Halfway between a recipe book and a tourist

guide, this book offers you an original and delicious journey

into the Charente-Maritime terroir's. The reader is

invited to share restaurateur Christopher Coutanceau's

address book, and meet the producers he has been

working with for many years, his friends and to discover

his favourite things.

Those who appreciate the very best in food

and drink will find in this tour local products and an

enticement to travel to an area that is rich in surprises.

These addresses are a guarantee of quality. They are also

the means to discover an area with its traditions, markets

and events through products, professions and visits

associated with food and drink.

This book is also a very practical guide to the

different prize-winning local specialities. Road maps are

included to help would-be explorers to discover some of

the best addresses in the unmissable world of fish.

However this book is also a gastronomic reference book.

Through about forty illustrated recipes, Christopher

Coutanceau shows how to use these flavours.

These original and easy to follow recipes, based

on the different products presented in the book, are so

many invitations to enrich in a simple and practical way

your discovery of truffles, mussels from Charron,

potatoes from Ile de Ré, scallops from La Rochelle,

oysters from Marennes-Oléron, and of course the

fabulous Petrossian's caviar....