WAIE (whatamieating.com)
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| poulet de Bresse
Language: French
Description: Bresse is a region famed for its chickens which are raised as free-range with a diet of maize and buckwheat. To comply with the AC regulations they are killed and plucked by hand and then bathed in milk. Reputedly the best chickens available in France with fine flavour, they come from Bresse, not far north of Lyon.
| Bresse chicken, with thanks to the wonderful La Huîtrière in Lille |
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Pronounced: poo-leh duh BREHS
Latin: Gallus gallus domesticus
Ethnicity: French
Most frequent country: France
Most frequent region: Bresse in Rhône-Alpes, Franche-Comté
See places: French food and cuisine, Bresse, Rhône-Alpes, Franche-Comté
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