This is a preview of the content in our French Food Decoder app. Get the app to:
- Read offline
- Remove ads
- Access all content
- Use the in-app Map to find sites, and add custom locations (your hotel...)
- Build a list of your own favourites
- Search the contents with full-text search functionality
- ... and more!
cousina
chestnut soup
As in Corsica, châtaignes (chestnuts) were once the ‘tree of life’ in the Ardèche, where many villages celebrate the nut in autumn chestnut festivals, or castagnades.
One of the dishes they serve is cousina, a chestnut soup made with fresh, tinned, roasted or rehydrated dry (sèches réhydratées) chestnuts, boiled in vegetable bouillon, then put through a blender with cream and nutmeg.
Text © Dana Facaros
Image by Christine M