Last month, my wife and I had the good fortune to find ourselves
meandering down the emerald coastline of Brittany. While navigating the
Crozon peninsula’s historic abbeys, abandoned fishing villages and
emerald cliff tops, we found ourselves digging in the exposed sea bed
for some of our very favorite things in the world to eat: shellfish.
Among the targets of the nautical scavenger hunt were oysters, mussels,
razor clams and winkles. Our host Joel, was kind enough to show us the
ways of the salt shaker and shovel when it comes to digging clams and
navigating the craggy sea floor. We ended the afternoon with a
collection of tasty morsels in our basket, which our host would later
cook for us at our traveller’s cottage – known in this area as a gité.
We settled in with a bottle of home made fermented apple cidré (bearing
no resemblance to the sweeter American variety – Woodchuck et al) and
enjoyed the bounty of our hunt. For a day spent in borrowed wellies
while digging in the seaweed and sand – it doesn’t get much better than
this.
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