One More Croissant for the Road

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Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it DIANA HENRY

Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing this book will get you hooked YOTAM OTTOLENGHI
The nations taster in chief cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes.

Agreen bike drunkenly weaves its way up a cratered hill inthe late-morning sun, the gears grinding painfully, like apepper mill running on empty. The rider crouched on top in arictus of pain has slowed to a gravity-defying crawl when, fromsomewhere nearby, the whine of a nasal engine breaks through her ragged breathing.
A battered van appears behind her, the customary cigarettedangling from its drivers-side window as he passes, she casually reaches down for some water,smiling broadly in the manner of someone having almost toomuch fun. No sweat, she says jauntily to his retreating exhaustpipe. Pas de problme, monsieur.

A land of glorious landscapes, and even more glorious food, France is a place built for cycling and for eating, too a country large enough to give any journey an epic quality, but with a bakery on every corner. Here, you can go from beach to mountain, Atlantic to Mediterranean, polder to Pyrenees, and taste the difference every time you stop for lunch. If you make it to lunch, that is

Part travelogue, part food memoir, all love letter to France, One More Croissant for the Road follows the nations taster in chief Felicity Cloakes very own 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 of the 21 stages concludes with Felicity putting this new found knowledge to good use in a fresh and definitive recipe for each dish the culmination of her rigorous and thorough investigative work on behalf of all of our taste buds.

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Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing this book will get you hooked. Felicity Cloakes Tour de France is a triumph. It is full of greed and wit, jam-packed with priceless practical information, peppered with a sense of adventure and wonder. I love it. Yotam Ottolenghi

Such a brilliant book, funny, captivating and wonderfully written. I feellike I was packed up in Felicity's pannier for the ride. Anna Jones

An evocative, infectious, and at times utterly hilariousadventure that will make every food lover, and even themost lapsed of cyclists, want to jump on their bike, and on a ferry to France, immediately. Rosie Birkett

Cloake imbues [One More Croissant] with such personality and wit that it makes you wonder if the rest of us have forgotten that writing about food should be fun. FT Weekend

Her bluffers guide to French bread told me more on one page than Ive learnt frequenting boulangeries in the six years Ive lived [in France]. Country Life

Funny, entertaining and informative, this is a book that makes you hungry, both for a good meal and for a visit across the Channel. Delicious Magazine

A gastronomic grand tour Red Magazine

Pure delight from first page to last, as if Elizabeth David was whispering one ear andMFK Fisher in the other. Felicity Cloake is the perfect travelling companion curious, funny, philosophical, and, best of all, imperishably greedy. She writes with self-deprecating humour and evocative grace. This is the best kind of travel and food book It makes you dream of doing the same. Matthew Fort

'A highly entertaining, tough-minded and enchanting book where the spirit of freewheeling travel writing is grounded perfectly with Felicity's sure-fire recipes. I had great trouble putting it down. Caroline Eden

Author Bio

Felicity Cloake is the author of the Guardian's long-running weekly column, How to Cook the Perfectas well as having been the New Statesman's food columnist since 2011 and the author of four books with Fig Tree. She was named Cookery Journalists of the Year at the 2016 Fortnum & Mason awards, and won the Cookery Journalist of the Year and New Media trophies at the 2011 Guild of Food Writers awards. One More Croissant for the Road is Felicity's first piece of food and travel writing.