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Cuisine Normande: Cream, Apples, and the Sea

Normandy — the coastal region of northwestern France — produces the richest dairy products in France (Normandy butter is considered the finest in the country, Camembert and Livarot are Norman), the most abundant apple orchards (producing calvados — apple brandy — and cidre), and an Atlantic seafood tradition built on the specific grey shrimp, oysters, and sole of the Norman coast.

The defining techniques of Norman cooking.

FRENCH REGIONAL DEEP EXTRACTION

Belgian moules frites (same marinières technique — Belgian parallel is equally canonical), Breton seafood tradition (adjacent region — similar Atlantic seafood), Belgian carbonnade (same long sealed-p