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By Paul Gayler
Published 1997
The dark greeny-blue French lentilles du Puy are generally considered to have the best flavour and are well worth buying. They have recently been granted appellation d’origine contrôlée status, just like a fine wine or cheese, which means that only lentils from a particular corner of France - the area around Puy-en-Velay in the Haute Loire - are entitled to be called Puy. This decree is causing consternation among some British supermarket chains, which sell ‘Puy lentils’ that