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Food-writer Felicity Cloake is no slacker when it comes to cycling, with several long-distance cycling holidays under her belt.

She is also an adventurous cook and has been described as ‘the nation’s food taster’.

Combining her passions, she decided to plot a cycling tour through France taking in the best regional dishes of the places she visited.

Each morning begins with a croissant.

"In general, the best breakfasts in France are bread-based… I never deviate from the plain croissant, the apotheosis of the baker’s art."

Places and dishes include fruits de mer in Cherbourg, Breton oysters, a boozy lunch in the Languedoc, three different types of Cassoulet, fish soup - not to be confused with bouillabaisse - in Marseille, a quantity of brie with members of the brotherhood of Brie de Meaux and, naturally, an awful lot of pastries.

Felicity Cloake’s part-travelogue and part-food memoir, first published in 2019.

Omnibus of five episodes abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed.

Read by Sophia di Martino.

Producer: Lizzie Davies

A Waters Company production for Â鶹Éç Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2021.

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