Normandy

Charcuterie Andouille de Vire With its black coat and greyish flesh, Andouille de Vire carries within its strips of chitterlings all… PDO Dairy & eggs Beurre d'Isigny The Norman gold of gastronomic tables — a rare butter whose legendary richness can only be measured by… TSG Meat Bœuf traditionnel de race Normande A steer reared for at least two summers at pasture in the Grand Ouest, where the Normande breed has been… PGI Seafood Bulot de la Baie de Granville A snail of the waves, caught in artisanal pots in the cold waters of the Cotentin, whose sweet white… AOCPDO Cheeses Camembert de Normandie The authentic Camembert, born of an encounter between an Orne farmwoman and a refractory priest at the… AOCPDO Drinks Cidre Cotentin On a windswept peninsula, a clean, bitter cider, born of apples from Spain and a bocage that has… PGI Drinks Cidre de Normandie France's leading cider orchard, Normandie ferments from its dessert and cider apples a sparkling… Meat Cochon de Bayeux A pig breed from the Norman Bessin, born of a 19th-century cross, almost wiped out by the war and… PDO Dairy & eggs Crème d'Isigny One of France's rare PDO crèmes fraîches — liquid essence of the Norman marshes. Cheeses Crémeux du Mont-Saint-Michel A double-crème born thirty kilometres from the bay, in a former furniture shop. PGI Seafood Huître de Normandie On the Normandy foreshore, battered by some of the strongest tides in the world, the cupped oyster grows… Confectionery Larmes de Jeanne (de Rouen) “On the place du Vieux-Marché, where Joan of Arc perished in the flames on 30 May 1431, a Rouen… AOCPDO Cheeses Livarot The Colonel of the Pays d'Auge — this russet, banded cheese, with its intense aroma and melting paste… AOCPDO Cheeses Neufchâtel Normandy's oldest cheese, bearing a legend of love born under English arms. Meat Oie du bocage normand The blue-eyed goose, plump on grass and worm-eaten apples, which once set sail from Cherbourg for the… AOCPDO Drinks Poiré Domfront 'A hundred years to grow, a hundred years to produce, a hundred years to die' — the adage of the Bas… PGI Fruit & vegetables Poireaux de Créances A vegetable of giant sweetness, the fruit of the sandy, windswept Cotentin, whose thick white stem… AOCPDO Cheeses Pont-l'Évêque The oldest of Norman cheeses, born in the heart of the Pays d'Auge in its neighbouring village, in the… PGI Meat Porc de Normandie Reared in the shade of apple trees and bocage grasslands, Porc de Normandie carries the rich, balanced… AOCPDO Meat Prés-salés du Mont-Saint-Michel Lambs reared on the marine grasses of world heritage — pink meat imbued with iodine and poetry. Pastries & bread Teurgoule "To twist one's mouth" — that is what Norman etymology claims one does when tasting this cinnamon rice… Traditional dishes Tripes à la mode de Caen "Legend has it that a monk from the Abbaye aux Hommes, founded by William the Conqueror, one day… PGI Meat Volailles de Normandie Canard à la rouennaise, farm-reared poularde, pasture capon — poultry reared beneath the apple trees of…