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Nortern France

The Mountainous Ardennes

The mountainous Ardennes region is famous for its salted and cold-cured ham, and Truite Ardennaise is a pan-fried trout with smoked ham and cream. Quiche Lorraine is a speciality of which we’ve all heard, and Alsace, with forty different varieties of pate, shares many food traditions with neighboring Germany: Porc aux deux pommes, a classic dish, is pork with potatoes and apples and kougelhopf is a ring-shaped cake with almonds and sultanas.

As far as cheeses go, Brie de Meaux probably needs no introduction, and Alsace Munster may also be familiar.

For the Montmedy traveler

Carbonnade is beef stew braised in beer, Choucroute garnie is a very Germanic dish of bacon, pork loin or knuckle and various types of sausages, both smoked and unsmoked, all served with boiled potatoes on a bed of sauerkraut. Boudin noir (blood pudding) and boudin blanc (white pork sausage) and saucisse de Strasbourg (basically a thick frankfurter) are popular.

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Research for the short introduction to Montmedy

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