The terroir of Finistère satisfies the busy lunchtime diner with two key products, le blé noir and le lait ribot. Both masculine nouns. Blé means wheat and noir means black but the US word for the crop is buckwheat. Buckwheat is not a wheat. In fact, it is not a cereal but a fruit which yields a starchy flour darkened by specks of broken seed coat. In Brittany the flour is made up into savoury pancakes with milk and eggs, and called une galette. We all enjoyed our galettes at Crêperie Chez Mamie, at number 4 Impasse de la Gare, 29000 Quimper, France. In fact Mamie's pancake house is just across the road from the two stations, the bus station and the railway station. Joined-up thinking by the Finistère authorities to place the coach and train station on the same site. Crêperie Chez Mamie prides itself on being bio, that is organic, and reducing food miles by using local producers, which it boasts on the reverse of...
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