Dining in the Auvergne. Auvergnat dishes on French Menus.

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Bryan G. Newman

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A valley in the Auvergne seen through an extinct volcano
The Auvergne contains many extinct volcanoes with the last eruptions around 6,000 years ago.
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The Auvergne is close to the geographic center of France and includes the departments of Allier, Cantal, Haute-Loire, and Puy de Dôme.

The Auvergne's mountains, rivers, and lakes in the summer are centers for hiking, camping, and water sports. In the winter, the higher elevations become centers for winter sports and ski resorts.  Nevertheless, for those who enjoy a quieter vacation, the Auvergne is the place. The Auvergne is one of the least inhabited areas in Europe; it has two people per sq km. Compare that with Provence- Alps-Côte-d'Azur with 156 persons per sq km.  (In 2016, the Auvergne region, with its six departments, became part of the administrative region of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes).

Dining in the Auvergne can be an awesome experience for visitors to France. Excellent meals made by well-trained chefs, many of whom only work with local ingredients. The water, beer and the wines on the table may be regional.

Historically, the Auvergne was the third-largest wine-producing region of France after Bordeaux and Burgundy. However, like most other wine-producing regions in Europe, their vineyards became infected with phylloxera at the end of the 18th century. (Phylloxera is a pest—a small, aphid-like insect.) Unfortunately, unlike other areas, the Auvergne wine producers never recovered their fame and fortune. Nevertheless, that does not mean that the Auvergne has no excellent local wines; their Chanturgue AOP red wine has a remarkable history in French cuisine.  (At the end of this post, I have listed some of the most well-known wines.)   

 

Auvergne restaurant menu listings

 

Bottled mineral water and beers:


Bottled mineral water with brands like Volvic, Vichy, Saint-Diéry, and others that are well-known throughout France will be offered:

 

Local beers include Volcans, Vellavia, Pastourèla, Sagnes, Ambrée, and others. To see a Wikipedia list of the beers produced in the region, click here.

Aperitifs:

Couderc Gentiane - A bitter, but fresh-tasting, local aperitif or digestif served cold or with ice. It is made from fresh gentian flowers grown in the mountains.

 

Kir Royal Auvergne - An Auvergne take on the aperitif that originated in Burgundy.  The Auvergne Kir Royal is made using a local Mousseaux (a lightly sparkling wine), and an Auvergne crème de cassis,  a black currant liquor.

  

Soups and entrées in the Auvergne
(French entrées are the first course).


Crème de Lentilles du Puy - A cream of lentil soup made with the Auvergne's unique AOP lentils, the Lentilles de Puy.

These lentils have a dark green color characterized by blue marbling and are cultivated in an area with its own microclimate around the small town of Puy-en-Velay in the department of Haute-Loire. For lentil lovers, these are very special, with less than 300 tons grown in any one year.

If you do visit Puy-en-Velay, there is a 12th-century cathedral which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The cathedral is built along the old pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The pilgrimage route is marked by the sign of the scallop shell; in France, that is also the shape of those famous little sponge cakes called Madeleines.

 

   The Lentils de Puy.

Photograph courtesy of Cornerstone Fine Foods

 

Soupe aux Choux au Cantal – This soup is a combination of the Auvergne’s plentiful cabbages and their superb Cantal AOP cheese. When in the Auvergne, make sure to try an Auvergne cabbage soup or another Auvergne cabbage dish.

   

Vichyssoise  Vichyssoise, a cold leek and potato soup. Vichyssoise is the dish to choose on a hot summer's day. Mind you, not everyone considers Vichyssoise an authentic Auvergnat dish, even though an Auvergnat native created it.

The chef, Louis Diat, created his world-famous soup at the New York Ritz-Carlton Hotel, USA, in 1917, and so some chefs claim the soup for the USA. The Auvergnats, the name given to the Auvergne residents, believe this soup is their own. Ignoring all the arguments, it is clear that Louis Diat had different ideas and named the soup after his hometown of Vichy in the Auvergne, and that was over 100 years ago.

While Vichy is famous for the food products named after it, the town of Vichy itself remains infamous for its role as the center of German collaboration in WWII.

    

Vichyssoise

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Melon Fraîcheur et son Jambon d'Auvergne – Chilled melon served with a cured ham from the Auvergne. Jambon cru d'Auvergne hams are salted and then cured for a minimum of nine months, with the very best cured for up to sixteen months. For more about French cured hams, click here.

French cured hams come from the upper part of the rear legs of a pig, and there are two kinds of ham on French restaurant menus. The first type of ham and the subject of this post is Jambon Sec (also called Jambon Cru), air-cured(air-dried) ham. The second type of ham is wet-cured ham, a ham that may be cooked again. Wet-cured ham includes the ham used in ham sandwiches, called jambon blanc or jambon de Paris, Parisian ham; other names include jambon supérieur. Jambon sec is called dry-cured ham in the UK and country ham in parts of the USA.

  

Belles Tranches de Bœuf Fin Gras du Mézenc Justes Marinées et Condiments d'une Béarnaise - Beautiful slices of the Fin Gras du Mézenc AOP beef lightly marinated and served uncooked with  the condiments that are used for a  Sauce Béarnaise. This particular dish is marinated, uncooked beef from the Fin Gras du Mézenc AOP cattle and a take on a beef Carpaccio.  

The Bœuf Fin Gras du Mézenc AOP cattle are raised on the Mézenc Massif that runs through the departments of Ardèche and the Haute-Loire. These are a unique AOP group of beef cattle since, they are not a single breed; rather, they are mixed breeds raised as free-range cattle. They are given their AOP for the way they are nurtured and the taste of their beef. This finely marbled beef is only on French Menus between February and early June.

The beef is reared in the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire and Lozère, where the cattle feed mostly on the local grasses, wild flowers and hay mixed with Alpine fennel.

Condiments d'une Béarnaise: suggests the flavor profile of Bearnaise without the heavy sauce. The dish will be seasoned with the key ingredients that define Béarnaise: tarragon, chervil, shallots and white wine vinegarThis will have been done to give the raw, delicate beef the classic Béarnaise flavor without overwhelming it with the heavy sauce that is typically served with grilled or roasted meats and fish.


Plats principal (main dishes), on Auvergne menus:

 

Petit Salé aux Lentilles du Puy  Salted pork with lentils is a traditional bistro dish served all over France, but with the Lentilles du Puy  from the Auvergne, this dish will also be on the menu in the finest restaurants.


 

Coq au Vin de Chanturgue – Coq au Vin, prepared with the Chanturgue AOP red wine of the Auvergne.  Most chefs agree that the first time this dish appeared on a French restaurant menu, Chanturgue was the wine used.

Chanturgue is almost universally accepted by French chefs as the wine used in the first restaurant version of Coq Au Vin.

Long before the first modern restaurant came to France, experienced French farmers’ wives would have arrived at tasty solutions for old and out-of-work cockerels. They would use the marinating powers and flavor of red wine. So nearly every wine-growing area of France will claim that they invented Coq Au Vin, and they are all probably correct.  However, on a restaurant menu the Auvergne was there first, and that was in the mid-19th century. Visit a restaurant in the Auvergne today that offers Coq au Vin de Chanturgue, and you should have a meal close to the original.

 

La Potée Auvergnate Traditionnelle - Mijoté de Porc Fermier (Palette & Jambonneau Demi-sel), Saucisse d'Auvergne, Chou Vert, Carottes et Pommes de Terre du Pays - The traditional Auvergne Potée - Slow-Simmered Farm Pork (Shoulder & Salted Knuckle), Auvergne Sausage, Green Cabbage, Carrots, and Local Potatoes.

A Potée is a hearty stew, and while France’s most famous version is the Pot-au-Feu, made with beef, the Auvergne’s most popular version is made with pork.

Saucisse d'Auvergne - The traditional Auvergne sausage is a small salami-type sausage, weighing about 100 grams (3.5 ounces) each and made with pork, pork fat, and beef. When this sausage is served as part of another dish, it may be grilled or, as in this listing, stewed; otherwise, it may be eaten uncooked like any salami-type sausage.

 

Épaule d’Agneau du Bourbonnais Confite à l’Ail Rose de Billom, Jus Corsé à la Sarriette, et Purée de Haricots Blancs Truffée - Bourbonnais Lamb Shoulder Confit with the Pink Garlic from Billom, Savory-Infused Rich Jus, and Truffled White Bean Purée.

The Charolais Bourbon Lambs were awarded the French Label Rouge, the red label grading given to some of France’s finest and highest quality foods and the Pan-European IGP. Charolais Bourbon Lambs have consistently high-quality meat, and the manner in which they are raised is a condition of the award. The lambs are raised by their mother until they are weaned and then allowed to graze freely.  They may reach your table at anywhere from three to seven months of age.

Confit: Confit is a cooking method with a long history as the techniques grew and matured.  Here, the lamb will be cooked slowly at a low temperature (several hours) until it is incredibly tender and almost ready to fall off the fork.

Ail Rose de Billom (also known as Le Peul) is a distinctive pink garlic variety cultivated around the town of Billom in the department of PuydeDôme. Its cultivation dates back to the Middle Ages, and by the 19th century, it had become a significant economic force in the region. The garlic’s unique taste is closely linked to its terroir, benefiting from the mineral-rich volcanic soils of La Limagne, a large fertile plain in the Allier river valley.

Jus Corsé à la Sarrietthe natural cooking juices of the lamb flavored with Summer Savory is used here as the sauce or gravy that accompanies the lamb. Sarriet, summer savory, is milder than the winter variety Sarriette des Montagnes (Winter or Mountain Savory).

Purée de Haricots Blancs Truffée - Truffled white bean purée. France’s ubiquitous are a favorite accompaniment for lamb, and the white bean purée has had truffle added to it. There are many types of truffles, and if this were one of the most expensive, its name would have been noted.  Truffles provide an aromatic, earthy, and musky flavor that will elevate the simplest bean purée. It would be of interest to ask which truffle is used or if the flavor comes from truffle oil.

 

La Cuisse de Pintade du Velay Confite au Jus de Genièvre- The leg and thigh from a Velay Guinea fowl, slowly cooked with juice from the juniper berries.

Volailles du Velay, the poultry from Velay  are farm raised and include poulets (chickens), pintades (Guinea fowl), dindes (turkeys), chapons (capons, fattened cockerels), poulardes   (young, fattened hens). All the poultry must be free-range from slow-growing rustic breeds, and they are fed a diet with at least 75% cereals.  The area where the farmers raise this poultry is in the department of Haute-Loire, which, prior to the French Revolution, had been called Velay (or Comté de Velay). (There are some farms with the right to raise Velay poultry in the department of Puy-de-Dôme.)

Pintades (Guinea fowl), have darker meat than chicken and a slightly stronger taste.  They were introduced to France in the 15th or 16th centuries, probably via Portuguese traders returning from the Guinea Coast of West Africa.

Confit: Confit is a cooking method with a long history as the techniques grew and matured.  The Guinea fowl will have been slowly cooked at a low temperature for hours.

Juniper berries are not really berries. These so-called berries are the tasty, dried, sour, blue-black pods or cones that contain the juniper seeds. Fresh juniper pods are rarely seen as they need two years to ripen. So, it is the dried juniper pods that are used for their flavor, like a herb.  The juniper is an evergreen bush from the conifer family, and it grows wild all over Europe. The dried pod is behind the flavor in hundreds of sauces, pastries, and, of course, gin.

 

 

Coq au Vin

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Truite Fario de l’Auvergne Grillée au Feu de Bois avec Carottes Vichy  – Wild Auvergne brown trout, grilled over a wood fire and served with carrots cooked in the manner of Vichy. 

Carrots in the style of the town of Vichy is a garnish of carrots served glazed with butter. The original recipe requires the carrots to be boiled in Vichy’s famous, bottled, lightly effervescent mineral water

The Auvergne is considered a freshwater angler’s paradise; it has hundreds of rivers and streams. Apart from visitors hoping for brown trout, the tastiest of all trout, both vacationing anglers and local professional fishers will be searching for omble chevalier, freshwater charbrochet, pikesander, pike-perchperche, freshwater perchcarpe, carp; and the American import Black-Bass or Black-bass à Grande Bouche, large-mouthed bass. Many amateur fishermen and women choose the Auvergne expressly for the exceptional fishing and privacy.

Vichy the town: While the town is famous for the food products named after it, such as Vichyssoise and its Vichy mineral water; it is still remembered for its infamous role as the center of German collaboration in WWII.

   

Lac Pavin (Lake Pavin), in the department of Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne.

The lake is part of an extinct volcano and a beautiful place to visit.

However, local legends describe the lake as bottomless, a hiding place for the Devil, or the site of a sunken city. Scientists have studied it since the 18th century, and the legends may be rooted in real geological phenomena.

Photograph courtesy of geraldine poisson.

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Aligot d'Auvergne Saucisse et Salade de Printemps – Auvergne aligot, a traditional and very popular dish of mashed potatoes and a young Cantal or a Tomme d'Auvergne cheese. Here, the Aligot is served with an Auvergne sausage and a spring salad, a salad made with young vegetables.

Added to the cheese and mashed potatoes in an Aligot are garlic, crème fraîche, milk and butter. This combination is carefully stirred until long threads of cheese and potato may be drawn from the pot. From personal experience on a cold winter's evening, after forty minutes in the freezing cold, while looking for a taxi and no time for lunch, the smell alone can be mistaken for the ambrosia of the gods.

The traditional Auvergne sausage is a small salami-type pork sausage, about 100 grams (3.5 ozs), made with pork, pork fat, and beef. When this sausage is served with Aligot, it is usually grilled, though this sausage may be part of other dishes including stews.

 

Aligot

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Truffade Auvergnate – A traditional potato dish from the Auvergne. It is a thick potato pancake made from thinly sliced potatoes fried in goose fat. Just before serving, it is mixed with a fresh Auvergnat tomme cheese. This dish can be served on its own or accompanied by grilled Auvergne sausages or locally cured ham.

Tome and Tomme cheeses – All the tommes with a double m (mm) are skim milk cheeses, which means they are made from whey and are relatively low in fat.   (The Tomes with a single m usually have a higher fat content). There are many tomme cheeses, and apart from their name, they may have very different tastes and textures. Tommes Fermier are farm-made cheeses, and unless you know the farm or a fromagerie that sells this specific farm's product at a particular time of the year, you may have trouble buying the same cheese again. Tommes can have significant differences that depend on the food the cows eat at different times of the year.

 

Entrecôte Charolais de Bourbonnais aux Morilles – An entrecôte, a rib steakA rib-eye in the USA and UK. Depending on the particular cut, it may also be called a sirloin in the UK. Here, the entrecote comes from the Charolais cattle and is served with morel mushrooms. 

The Bœuf Charolais, Le Bœuf Charolais du Bourbonnais AOP, are among France's most famous breeds. Bourbonnais was one of France's traditional provinces and the original home of the French Bourbon dynasty of kings. The ancient province of Bourbonnais is now divided between the modern administrative regions of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alps and Centre-Val de Loire. 

Entrecôte, its name translates to “between the ribs,” which precisely describes its origin: a cut from the rib section; a rib-eye. In France, this steak is typically prepared boneless, with chefs leaving a strip of fat along the edge to keep the meat moist and tender during cooking, then trimming it before serving.  

Morilles Morels are a family of tasty mushrooms with a decidedly different look from most other mushrooms.  Morels lack the gills and domed caps of many other mushrooms, but they all have white to ivory-colored stems and a conical cap.  Dried morel caps that you may see in the market look tube-shaped, but that is part of the drying process, and when rehydrated, the conical cap returns. The morel’s taste and texture make it a French favorite; they will be served fresh from early spring through to the beginning of June. (The idea that Morel stems are not edible is an urban legend, though they are a little tougher than the cap, and need to be cooked a little longer.)


    

A grilled entrecote.

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Tarte de les Perles Noires et Perles Rouge de l’Auvergne -  A tart made with the red and black pearls of the Auvergne. In season all over the Auvergne’s mountains and hills, the locals will be collecting their wild and cultivated red and black pearls, the local berries.

The local pearls include the baies de cassis, European black-currants; the groseille rouge, red currants;  myrtille or bleuet, the bilberry; mûre, the blackberry; baie de Genièvre, the juniper berry; and the framboise, the raspberry. 

     

A black pearl - a mûre, a blackberry.

Photograph courtesy of Malmont2012

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Digestifs:

 

Verveine du Velay – A liqueur from the Auvergne made from the herb lemon verbena or lemon-scented verbena, offered as a digestif.  Verbena may also be offered as an herbal tea.

  

Liqueur de Châtaigne de l'Auvergne - The chestnut liqueur of the Auvergne may be offered as a digestif.

An alternative will be the Marc d'Auvergne, one of the many local digestifs that you may choose from. Marcs are very similar to the grappas of Italy; they are brandies made with the leftovers from pressing the grapes used for wine. Originally, grappa was a brandy made for the peasants; now it will be professionally distilled, aged, and served in the finest restaurants.

 

Cheese in the Auvergne

 

There are five Auvergne cheeses with an AOP: Cantal, SalersBleu d'Auvergne, Saint-Nectaire, and the Forme d'Ambert.  Apart from these five, there are many excellent cheeses without an AOP. These less expensive, but very tasty, cow's, goat's and sheep's cheeses include Chèvreton, Chabrirou, Le Chambérat, Fournols, Saint-Amant, and the Tomme d'Auvergne, among many others. Not having an AOP certainly does not indicate an inferior cheese; many excellent cheeses do not have the distribution or exact geographical production areas that are required for an AOP. The Charolais AOP goat's cheese is also made in the Auvergne, though its center is the department of Saône-et-Loire in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

  

Cantal Vieux

The Cantal Vieux will have been matured for at least six months.

Photograph courtesy of Julien FOUR

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The Auvergne has a Route des Fromages AOP d'Auvergne, a cheese road for their five AOP cheeses. Taking this road is an excellent way to see the region while tasting cheeses of every type, AOP or not, along with wines and other local products. There is, unfortunately, no official Route des Vins d'Auvergne, a wine road. Nevertheless, you may see a map with the Auvergne wineries clearly marked on the French language website below. (The site is easily navigated in English with Google or Bing Translate apps.)

https://www.issoire-tourisme.com/en/incontournables/vins-dauvergne/

 The English language website for the Auvergne's five AOP cheeses is: 

http://www.fromages-aop-auvergne.com/?lang=en.

You may write ahead to obtain a printed copy of the map of the cheese road at info@fromages-aop-auvergne.com. If you buy cheese to take home first, see the post: Bringing French Cheese Home and a Lexicon for buying French Cheese.  

 With the map of the cheese road and the directions to the Auvergne's wineries, make your own combined wine and cheese road. The farms and wineries that you stop at for a tasting will ask for a small and reasonable contribution to the local economy. After a few hours of wine, cheese, beautiful scenery, and picturesque villages, stop for lunch, or find a hotel, rest, and enjoy the peace and quiet and continue the next day.

The wines of the Auvergne

There are many good and inexpensive Auvergne wines, including the Vins IGP du Puy de Dôme. (IGP wines were previously called Vin de Pays). There are reds, rosés, gris (gray), and white wines, but the difference between vintners, even with wines from the same year, can be amazing. I always travel with an up-to-date pocketbook or eBook on French wines, as a price and year tell me little about what's in the bottle, and even a well-recommended producer can have a bad year. 

Additionally, Auvergne has many Vins de France. (Previously, the Vins de France wines were called Vins de Table.) A Vin de France label may indicate low-cost wines, but a slightly lower price does not mean that all Vins de France are poor wines. Like all wines, including those with an AOP, you need recommendations from someone who knows the wine, the year, and or the vintner. There are many reasons that a wine cannot hold an AOP grading, and many of those relate to where the grapes grew and the grapes used, not the taste. N.B.: Old wines at low prices are indications to choose something else; the French know their wines, and if they were good, the locals would have been there first. See the post on the wine labels, the AOP, IGP and Vin de France.

 


Wines of the Auvergne
Photograph courtesy of clermontauvergnevolcans.

 

The AOP wines of the Auvergne:

Saint-Pourçain AOP: Red, rosé, and white.

Côtes d'Auvergne AOP:  (5 appellations)

Madargue: Red.

Chateaugay: Red, rose, and white.

Chanturgue: Red. The original red wine used for Coq au Vin.

Corent: Dry rosé

Boudes:  Red

Côte Roannaise AOP: Reds and rosé.

Côtes du Forez AOP: Red and rose. 

 

Before traveling to the Auvergne

Study the French Government English language website, below, for the Auvergne, and you'll be on the way to a very different and calm part of France. 

https://www.france.fr/en/destination/auvergne/

 

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