Farm products, fat , honey, gingerbread and goat cheese ... and also tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, parsley, artichokes, apricots, including the famous Red Roussillon wine, peaches and nectarines, apples, potatoes  famous Bea's variety, cherries, wild almond, fig ... sure, we forget some ! There are so many good flavors here and lot of various seasons product ! You found them all over the market place, beautiful, colorful, well-behaved in their pretty wicker basket.

 

Above, is already the mountain, the  Rosée des Pyrénées is breed in liberty. This calf is feed with its mother's milk and herbs from the green pastures. This gives the meat an unforgettable taste. She is the heiress of traditional Catalan peasants.
Catalan Lamb ("Xai" but pronounced "shaille"), is also breed the old way. "It is found mainly on the market stall at Easter, since the ewes give birth in late winter.

 

 

There is majesty "tree-bark", as the Greeks called : the cork oak, the cork oak forest which will enable the manufacture of quality corks.

And then of course there is the eternal: the olive tree, a friend of the scrubland and the sun, whose fruits are taken to the Olive Mill in Millas.

The Coques catalanes, ou fougasses, are savory or sweet dough breads. Their compositions vary depending on the land: pine nuts, candied fruit, fresh fruit, cracklings grilled pork....

The Rousquilles are soft cookies and fragrant little crown-shaped, coated with icing sugar.

The Crunchy almonds, traditionally manufactured in Saint-Paul de Fenouillet accompany the coffee.

The  Bunyetes, large flat cakes flavored with orange blossom, are still made by Catalan families on the occasion of Easter.

The Touron a nougat semi-crunchy almond or hazelnut, or soft Gables, is one of these traditional sweets you find on Christmas tables.


The vine and wine ? We'll talk about it a bit further...

(Tourisme de Terroir, Vins du Roussillon, Chambre d'Agriculture des Pyrénées-Orientales)