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It's the felicitous combination of the dairy farm, the apple orchard, and the sea that inspire Normandy's crème de la crème cuisine, featuring voluptuous cream sauces, tender cheeses, lavish seafood platters, and head-spinning Calvados brandy.

Normandy's verdant and fertile landscape—a patchwork of pastures and apple orchards bordered by the sea—heralds a region of stupefying culinary delights. The apples are rendered into tarts, cakes, sauces, and cidre bouché, a sparkling cider sold in cork-topped bottles. Brown and white cows grazing beneath the apple blossoms—the famous vaches normandes—each produce up to seven gallons of rich milk a day, destined to become golden butter, thick crème fraiche, and prized cheeses. Coastal waters from Dieppe to Granville are equally generous, yielding sole, turbot, and oysters. To fully appreciate Normandy's gastronomic wealth, stroll through one of the weekend markets, such as the splendid Saturday morning affair in Honfleur on the cobbled Place Sainte-Catherine, sample a seafood platter at a boardwalk café in Deauville, or make a date to meet the omelet of your dreams at La Mère Poulard at Mont-Saint-Michel.

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