Best Of The Taste: What A Feast! Tour Food And Drink Gems

By JOHN LEICESTER, SAMUEL PETREQUIN and ANDREW DAMPF, AP Sports Writers, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Living
Sat, 07/22/2017 - 9:54am

For three weeks, as the Tour de France riders did their thing, a team of Associated Press journalists who followed them valiantly ate and drank their way through the gastronomic offerings along the 3,540-kilometer (2,200-mile) route. Here, as the Tour wraps up Sunday with the final Stage 21 to Paris, is their "best of" — the gems and must-try treats waiting to be eaten, drunk and discovered by anyone who follows in the 104th Tour's footsteps: The stinky Herve cheese in Belgium, for example, was as memorable as the pungent blue Roquefort sheep's cheese served by young farmers on Stage 14 to Rodez. [...] the Japanese food at the race start in Duesseldorf, catering to its large Japanese population, held its own against some of the signature dishes that towns across France proudly offered to Tour visitors. The Tour champion traditionally waits until the very last stage into Paris to enjoy a flute of celebratory Champagne in the saddle as he rides to the finish on the Champs-Elysees to collect his winner's prize of 500 000 euros ($582,000). Invariably, Tour towns proudly ply race visitors with their local tipple: a cherry brandy in eastern France, boutique Champagnes on Stage 6 that went past the home of France's wartime hero and former President Gen.

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