Potage Crécy

The French town most famously associated with the carrot is Crécy, * a village in the department of the Somme in northern France, where Edward ill of England defeated Philip of Valois in 1346 during the Hundred Years’ War, effectively bringing the era of chivalry to an end. How? Because the English infantry deployed the Welsh longbow to murderous effect against mounted French knights in armor. This tactic was not consi