E5P2-2 FrenchFoodSafari

In this episode, we travel to Lyon and get swept up in the fun of eating in the local bouchons -- relaxed eating houses which have existed for hundreds of years, starting as canteens for the local silk factory workers.

One of the favourite bouchon dishes is a lentil salad, and Guillaume makes his own easy delicious version, which lives up to the description of "the poor man's caviar".

Still in Lyon, we explore the many great food stalls at the Le Halles de Lyon Market and showcase some of the best from the market.

In the rolling farmland a couple of hours north of Lyon is the area famous for the best chickens in all the world -- the chickens raised outside on the emerald green grass of the Bresse region are prized and carefully tended by farmers such as Christian Picard.

Visionary French chef Jacques Reymond (Jacques Reymond Cuisine du Temps, Melbourne) grew up in the Bresse region and shows how to make the dish of his childhood -- coq au vin.

Next we travel underground in Champagne to visit the one of the great champagne makers at the House of Mumm, which has a staggering 25 kilometres of tunnels in which to mature their exquisite wines.

Dessert is a delightful choice from Perigord -- home to some of the plumpest most delicious prunes in the world, which are made into a lovely prune tart by one of Australia's pioneering French cooks Dany Chouet (who introduced generations of food lovers to French cuisine at her Blue Mountains restaurant, Cleopatra).

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