Calf's brains simmered with mushrooms in sauce poulette with chopped parsley.

Calf's brains sliced and laid alternately with slices of cooked celeriac, covered with mayonnaise flavoured with mustard and mixed with puréed brains.

Puréed brains, usually calf, mixed with egg yolks and cream.

Calf's brains cooked, cooled and sliced and served with vinaigrette.

Barley beer. A predecessor of beer from France.

The Cévennes is a mountainous area on the south eastern edge of the Massif Central in Lozère and Gard in the north of Languedoc-Roussillon, with a watershed to the west between the Loire and the Garonne rivers and, to the east, the Rhône and Saône rivers. It includes the sources of many rivers, including the Allier, the Loire, the Tarn and the Lot. Sheep are reared in the region, and olives, mulberries and vines are grown on the southern slopes.

A pie with a crust top and bottom and containing a filling of minced (US: ground) pork, apple and chestnuts.

A cone-shaped goat's milk cheese. This small cheese is made on farms and in dairies in Poitou and has a strong flavour. Best from May to February. (AOC-1990).