NO COUNTRY FOR VEGETARIANS

the chefs lunch 12 April 2011

Each year in April - May, I travel to France with renowned chef, TV presenter and meat eater Gabriel Gaté.
For a non stop 2 month epic we travel the route of the upcoming Tour de France to record for SBSTV Australia a series of segments on the culinary delights of the countryside that the tour travels through.
With 7000 kilometers and 180 restaurant meals under our belts each trip it is now time to find out if France is really NO COUNTRY for VEGETARIANS.
This blog I hope will be an entertaining recap of past tours but will also be an ambitious behind the scenes diary of the 2012 Taste Le Tour recording sessions.

Here is a link to last years web page for our show
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/show/taste-le-tour 

The vegos lunch 12 April 2011

A quick recap of the Tour De France 2011
Stage one got underway from Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, famous for lots of seafood and POTATOES.

So we drove up there on 13 April 11 to set the scene.

After a good morning of location shots on a clear April day we had lunch at
La Marine
5 Rue Marie Lemonnier, 85330 Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, France +33 2 51 39 23 09 ‎ blogspot.com

I am not sure that vegetarian cuisine is usually on their menu but they handled my requests very professionally.

  

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