La Pachade: The Forgotten Potato Pancake of the Auvergne
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This episode explores La Pachade, a traditional potato pancake from the Auvergne region of France, detailing its history and cultural significance.
La Pachade: The Forgotten Potato Pancake of the Auvergne | Food Tour de France La pachade — the thick, crispy potato pancake of the Auvergne that has been feeding the mountain people of this volcanic landscape for centuries — is one of those dishes that is completely unknown outside its home region and completely fundamental within it. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes at Le Lioran — right in the heart of the Cantal mountains, in the same volcanic landscape where the Cantal cheese we covered in Aurillac has been made since before the Romans noticed it — and tells the full story of a dish that was once called le petit coussin de Jésus, the little cushion of Jesus, made at Christmas in the farmhouses of the Auvergne and eaten at breakfast after the bacon soup and before the cheese. A batter of egg, flour, milk and salt, cooked slowly in oil and butter in a steel pan until the edges are deeply crisp and golden and the centre is soft, yielding and completely cooked through. Simple. Honest. Entirely specific to this landscape. The episode covers the full history and tradition of the pachade — its role as one of the central elements of the daily diet in rural Auvergne, the…
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