Normandy, France
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France and Food together are a serious subject. The nation that knows better than all the others the value of a well prepared meal enjoyed in good company, can be no other than France. Join our party for an alfresco meal and take in the sights and sounds of this Old World afternoon.

Normandy is famous for its rich, rolling countryside, which provides plentiful pasture for dairy cattle. The dairy produce of the region is renowned: its cheeses are world famous and include Camembert, Livarot, Pont l'Evêque, Brillat-Savarin, Neufchâtel, and Boursin.

Normandy is the native land of Taillevent, cook of the kings of France Charles V and Charles VI. He wrote the earliest French cookery book named Le Viandier.