Charente Maritime is a department in Poitou-Charentes.

Charente is a department in Poitou-Charentes.

Charentes is a region covering the departments of Charentes and Charentes-Maritime in the west of France, with its coast on the Bay of Biscay. the same area as the provinces of Saintonge and Aunis. It is an agricultural area, providing cereals and fodder crops and there is some dairy farming. Wines and Cognac are produced and there are extensive oyster and mussel beds at Marennes, just south of Rochefort.

A Bourbonnais plum or prune pastry or turnover.

A trolley found in restaurants, from which desserts may be served.

Lamb cutlets coated with cheese and onion mixture and sautéed.

located on the banks of the Meuse River.

A cold pudding of custard lined with sponge lady fingers. It is also a hot pudding and a variety of salad potato.

A pudding, usually made with apples but may be other fruit, which are chopped and placed in a mould made with buttered bread. The whole thing is then baked. It is also a cold pudding and a variety of salad potato.