"Pommes Tapées" A Loire Valley delicacy

When the phylloxera (an insect pest from North America) obliterated a large part of French and European vineyards Loire Valley residents had to become entrepreneurial to survive.

Apples (and pears) were plentiful: They figured out a way of preserving them and marketing them ensuring their economic survival, at least until vineyards and wine making returned after WW1.

Troglodytic dwellings were plentiful too: All over the Loire Valley in limestone caves (former stone quarries) wood fired ovens enabled locals to manufacture dried apples and pears.

Quaint Turquant located outside the town of Saumur in the Anjou region is known as the Capital of "les Pommes Tapées." This ancestral activity was rediscovered in the 1980s. A visit to the local museum inside a man-made "tuffeau" (limestone) cave takes visitors on a trip back in time.

Join me on this new virtual tour where I share what I saw in Turquant when I ventured underground.

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Merci au Musée de la Pomme Tapée, Turquant.
https://pommes-tapees.fr/

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