19 October 2008

Fête de la Branda - Socca


A speciality of south-eastern France, especially around Nice. It's 10.30h at the Fête de la Branda and the socca oven is already in operation. Later, at lunchtime, there will be a long queue of hungry visitors.

Socca is a sort of crepe made with chickpea flour and olive oil and it's delicious. Come back tomorrow and we'll see exactly how it's made.

8 comments:

  1. cant wait till tomorrow. is that a portable oven? wood fired or charcoal?

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  2. WE need to know about SOCCA - HA I am sure it's grand if you say so. The oven is interesting. More like a pizza oven???

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  3. Gosh that even sounds good and I suppose deserves a large crowd to feast.

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  4. Je ne connaissais pas la Socca - il n'y a pas ça à Avignon.

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  5. Je ne connais pas non plus tu nous fais gouter demain ?

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  6. Hmmm...don't know about this either, although it does sound delish!

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  7. With me being a veggie and Gary not, these where a perfect choice for me to stock up on. Oh I am feeling all nostalgic now.

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  8. Babooshka, I'm a vegetarian too, so right this goes down well, although there is so much for vegetarians in the south of France.

    Virginia, yes it's like a pizza oven and is transportable. We only see this oven in the village on Fete days.

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