nivernais-bourbonnais

"Bourbonnaise cuisine is, it exists. It lives for the greatest joy of gourmets, let us hasten to say it," said Curnonsky, in his volume of "La France Gastronomique. "The inhabitants of this charming Bourbonnais have a very French cuisine, a little heavy at times, but always tasty.”

The mosaic of small meadows is ideal for all kinds of livestock. One can find Charolais beef, the forgotten lamb boulangère, and the Bourbonnaise hen with its pretty ermine plumage and gray hackle.

And of course—Sancerre.