The country people often have amazing vegetable gardens, keep chickens, ducks, pigeons, rabbits and sheep all reared for the table. Everyone still buys fresh bread each day and still take their two hours lunch breaks when all the shops are closed.
Their traditional food and drink are an essential part of their culture too. Camembert de Normandie, Pont-l’Eveque, Neufchatel and Livarot cheeses, cider, Pommeau and Calvados, local Parma ham and foie gras, chitterling sausage and salt marsh ham are all part of their heritage.