We weren’t sure if this was a joke or not. It was a slightly coarse, almost like sourdough, baguette from Fuveau. So Fuveau baguette may have been shortened locally to a fuvette.
A round pork liver sausage containing chopped spinach or Swiss chard, onions, garlic, parsley, bound with egg and wrapped in caul fat. It is served hot or cold in southern France. It is also a variety of olive and one stomach of a calf.
A name in the Midi for the John Dory, a high quality, plump, flattish fish with a golden sheen, with an ugly but amiable face. It was first associated with Zeus, then with St Peter, as evidenced by the ‘finger marks’ left by him when he picked it up to remove a coin from its mouth to pay some taxes.
Lean pieces of poultry, game, pork, fish, veal or rabbit mixed with eggs, spices and other ingredients, and formed into a symmetrical, loaf shape. They are then cooked in stock and set in natural aspic. If these are wrapped in a cloth, becoming cylindrical in shape, they should be called ballottines. Strictly speaking a galantine has diced meat and a ballotine has Minced (US: ground) meat.
