One More Croissant for the Road Audiobook (Free)

‘Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I treasured it’ – DIANA HENRY

‘Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or just an appreciator of impeccable composing – this reserve are certain to get you hooked’ – YOTAM OTTOLENGHI

The country’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes.

A green bicycle drunkenly weaves its way up a cratered hill in the about YET ANOTHER Croissant for the Road late-morning sun, the gears grinding painfully, like a pepper mill operating on empty. The rider crouched on top in a rictus of pain provides slowed to a gravity-defying crawl when, from someplace close by, the whine of a nasal engine breaks through her ragged inhaling and exhaling.

A battered truck shows up behind her, the customary cigarette dangling from its driver’s-side windows… as he passes, she casually reaches down for some drinking water, smiling broadly in the way of someone having almost too much fun. ‘No perspiration,’ she says jauntily to his retreating exhaust pipe. ‘Pas de problème, monsieur.’

A land of glorious scenery, and even more glorious food, France is a location built for cycling and for eating, too – a country huge enough to give any trip an epic quality, but having a bakery on every corner. Here, you can proceed from beach to mountain, Atlantic to Mediterranean, polder to Pyrenees, and taste the difference each and every time you quit for lunch. If you make it to lunchtime, that is…

Part travelogue, part meals memoir, all like notice to France, One More Croissant for the street follows ‘the nation’s taster in main’ Felicity Cloake’s individual Tour de France, cycling 2,300km across France in search of culinary perfection; from Tarte Tatin to Cassoulet via Poule au Container, and Tartiflette. Each one of the 21 ‘phases’ concludes with Felicity putting this new found knowledge to great use in a brand new and definitive formula for every dish – the culmination of her demanding and thorough investigative focus on behalf of all of our tastebuds.