alsace

"Like Bresse, like Burgundy, like Périgord or Franche-Comté, Alsace is one of those blessed lands where nature has spread all its gifts," wrote the gastronome Curnonsky and the writer Marcel Rouff in La France Gastronomique (1921).

In a restaurant in Colmar recommended to them by "Uncle Hansi" (the cartoonist Jean-Jacques Waltz), the two traveling companions ate vegetable soup, hare stew with noodles, partridge with sauerkraut, crayfish nage, exquisite fresh fruit, and anise bread. Not forgetting for drinks, they enjoyed aromatic and supple Alsatian wines, Crémant, and eaux-de-vie.

The gastronomic repertoire of Alsace includes "an infinite number of succulent dishes," specifies the Larousse Gastronomique of 1938. But we can’t list them all here. Let’s just go find them ourselves…