What are these food items????

Hello Friends!!

Well, I pondered for a spell, and came up with a few questions to ask around here, because, well, I like it around here, and I like hearing feedback from nice folks! I know, I know, Travelnutty, I can do a search! (teehee!) But, I bet this one has not been discussed before!

I watched a very excellent television program in the states on the Neanderthal man, and paleontology fascinates me. There is a famous (well, in paleontology terms) place in France where they found what is considered to be one of the last strong-holds of the Neanderthal man. It is in a large cave, in a very rocky and deep gorge. And geographically speaking, that is all I know!

I was curious if anyone here had any idea whatsoever where this site might be????? And if there is a museum or local historian, something of that nature? I am looking for a really different and intriguing side-trip for my winter Paris stay. I realize folks will want to tell me, “Why would you want to go there? There is nothing to see or do there!”…but those are not people like myself! I would actually travel by train 2-3 hours in each direction, just to look at a river gorge where Neanderthal spent his last days. Doesn’t matter to me if there is nothing else to look at. Of course, if the area is totally inaccessible then I would gracefully toss in the towel.

Okay, can anyone here rise to this occasion?????? ;-)

lasscass

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AAAACK!!!!!

I got the wrong topic mixed up with the wrong title headline!!!

So sorry, (and I am ssoooooo miffed!)

For the REAL food item topic, look to the thread titled %26quot;Where are you, Neanderthal man???%26quot;.......(sigh)

lasscass

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Okay, don%26#39;t cart me off to the loony bin just yet! I had saved two very seperate documents, one in WORD and one in PUBLISHER...so that I could copy and paste them both up quickly when I came online to the forum, but after realizing (after posting them) that both threads held the same posting, I checked my task bar, and very very very odd, but both the Word document, and the Pub, now have the itentical stories.....

I cannot even begin to make sense of that! I don%26#39;t know where my long written item on the food went, but I will try to rewrite my questions again, though in short, because I am now so ticked I don%26#39;t have the patience to write it all again! ARRRGH!!!

I had wanted to know what the heck are CALVADOS!!! I have read about them in several books, and even a recipe book, (though it only mentioned them as a regional item)...but none of them gave a hint of what they are!! It makes me think of the California Avacado growers...I think they call themselves CalVado, or something like that!

The other food item I was curious about is the GALETTE. What is that? I imagine a potatoe cake, kind of like a crab cake???

Any offered advice is soooo welcome! Sorry for all this baloney regarding subject matter matching the subject!!!! It really bumms me out big time, but try to overlook that, ok!!!

lasscass

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The caves are probably Les grottes de Lascaux.

Not near Paris.

You can go to Musee de l%26#39;homme in Paris for a quick fix of anthropology.

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Calvados is an apple flavored brandy made in Normandy.

A galette is a tart(pastry) usually made of with fruit.YUM.

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A galette can be anything flat and round. Some examples include:

galette aux fruits (a thin fruit tart)

galette (the savory version of a crêpe, made with buckwheat flour and filled with cheese, ham, etc.)

galette de pommes de terre (potato pancakes)

galettes (a candy from Brittany shaped like the stones you use for skipping across water)

galette de blé/maïs (how they describe flour/corn tortillas)

What exactly a galette will turn out to be depends very much on the context!

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For those who are interested, I have done a little French-English glossary of %26quot;What are these food items ?%26quot;.

It%26#39; a word document in two pages, printable and easy to fold %26amp; keep in one%26#39;s pocket.

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Patricia Wells has an excellent and very detailled food glossary you can download from her page.

www.patriciawells.com/glossary/atoz/atoz.htm

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Thank you all for reading through all of my mess to get to the real heart of the subject matter! :-) And also thanks for the asnwers! I never would have imagined that calvados was a drink, I was sure it was a dish of some kind! And gallettes are complicated, aren%26#39;t they! I finished reading a book about one womans move to Paris, and she mentioned picking up gallettes at one of the markets, but she didn%26#39;t say what they were other than they were %26quot;dreamy%26quot;! So you can see why I had to know!

Ileana, I would love a copy of your food item list, you can email me at lasscass@yahoo.com.....I am sure that your list and Coco%26#39;s Well%26#39;s glossary will help me out enormously...thanks so much!

lasscass

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I sent you the list Lasscass. Galettes are in it but not Calvados !

Very curious indeed to buy %26quot;dreamy galettes%26quot; at the market !

Even me, a true parisian, I can%26#39;t really figure out what it is.

Unless it%26#39;s in january and it%26#39;s a %26quot;galette des rois%26quot;, a puff pastry with a %26quot;bean%26quot; hidden inside (the person who find it is %26quot;the king%26quot;

or %26quot;the queen%26quot; and put a golden paper crown on his/her head !)

Or maybe it%26#39;s in the center of France, where %26quot;galette de pommes de terre%26quot; is a tréaditional puff pastry not round, but square !!!) stuffed with potatoes.

Or it%26#39;s in Brittany, it%26#39;s for sure a crepe !

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What%26#39;s your ultimate question here--%26quot;Did Neanderthals eat galettes?%26quot;