‘Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I treasured it’ – DIANA HENRY

‘Whether you are a devoted cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing – this reserve will get you hooked’ – YOTAM OTTOLENGHI

The country’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes.

A green bicycle drunkenly weaves its way up a cratered hill in the about YET ANOTHER Croissant for the street late-morning sun, the gears milling painfully, just like a pepper mill working on vacant. The rider crouched on top within a rictus of discomfort offers slowed to a gravity-defying crawl when, from somewhere close by, the whine of the nasal engine breaks through her ragged inhaling and exhaling.

A battered truck appears behind her, the customary cigarette dangling from its driver’s-side home window… as he goes by, she casually gets to down for a few drinking water, smiling broadly in the manner of someone having almost an excessive amount of fun. ‘No sweat,’ she says jauntily to his retreating exhaust pipe. ‘Pas de problème, monsieur.’

A property of glorious scenery, and much more glorious food, France is a place built for cycling as well as for eating, too – a country large enough to give any journey an epic quality, but with a bakery on every corner. Right here, you can go from beach to mountain, Atlantic to Mediterranean, polder to Pyrenees, and flavor the difference each time you prevent for lunch time. In the event that you make it to lunchtime, that is…

Part travelogue, part meals memoir, all love notice to France, One More Croissant for the street follows ‘the nation’s taster in key’ Felicity Cloake’s individual Tour de France, cycling 2,300km across France in search of culinary perfection; from Tarte Tatin to Cassoulet via Poule au Pot, and Tartiflette. Each one of the 21 ‘levels’ concludes with Felicity putting this new discovered knowledge to great use in a brand new and definitive formula for each dish – the culmination of her demanding and thorough investigative focus on behalf of all of our tastebuds.