I’ve discovered the key to good vegetarian dining in France!
Four words: Don’t eat French food.
Usually when I travel, sampling the local cuisine is one of the highlights of the trip. I love trying all kinds of new foods, as long as they’re vegetarian. Therein lies the problem I’ve always had with French cuisine – it seems to think that meals must revolve around dead animals. I have scoured many a French menu, looking past the snails, the goose liver, the frogs, etc., only to find I’m again going to be eating a plain green salad and dessert (OK, at least the desserts are good).
Last week I headed off to France for a few days with a different approach. I chose restaurants based on their vegetarian offerings, rather than on their Frenchness. I found Italian, Indian, Vietnamese, and other non-French restaurants with multiple vegetarian dishes.
If you’re a bread and pastry person, by all means eat lots of those while in France. And the chocolate mousse there can’t be beat. But if you’re looking for vegetarian meals beyond a few baked goods and sweets, I highly recommend going for the ethnic food. Vive la difference!
Tags: dining, France, French food, restaurants, travel, vegetarian
you do realize that most chocolate mousse contains gelatine? which is just a different part of the dead animal, but that is the only difference to the animals flesh…
I’ve never heard of chocolate mousse containing gelatin before. I’ve made it myself and never seen a recipe that called for it as an ingredient. Guess I’ll have to ask about that next time I’m in France…