Other Meat Dishes

The Auvergnats attach great importance to the quality of their meat, as indeed they do to that of most of their food. Just as they prefer vegetables from their own kitchen garden, because they know how they were grown and what fertilized them (manure in most cases), they like to establish where their veal, beef and lamb come from. And whenever possible they rear their own poultry and family pig (and sometimes even when this is not permitted: some families in the town of Aurillac (Cantal) keep farmyard animals in their gardens, a practice that is frowned on but not penalized by the authorities).