Vanessa Zhâ & Olivier Poels 7:12 a.m., February 10, 2024
Gastronomy, leisure... Every weekend at 6:50 a.m., Olivier Poels and Vanessa Zha present a product, a producer and all the good tips for re(discovering) a region.
This morning Vanessa we are going for a walk in the mountains, heading to Haute Savoie with a snow ski atmosphere.
Come on, let's put on our skis, let's go, we have an appointment with a certain Jacques Olivier Travers:
SOUND: Eagle
Skiing with this eagle, seeing it fly freely, following us, it's a suspended moment of incredible beauty and it's there that we become aware of the power, the performances of this bird...a privileged moment that Jacques Olivier , who is a falconer, organizes every winter in Morzine. It's a free 45-minute adventure, for 4-6 people. Even if it obviously creates curiosity among all skiers. And that starts discussions.
And that’s the goal: to make us aware of the reintroduction of this “giant”, 2m50!!
And 7kg. So this white-tailed eagle had disappeared from France for 130 years. While it is a bird that has gone through history, which was very common. Aristotle was the first to talk about it, it is the emblem of Germany, of Geneva too… Rousseau also under the name of orfraie! Moreover, the expression “to utter golden cries” comes from the Eagle. Rare for an animal to give rise to expressions. There are only 2 others: the wolf and the bear. So given the context, Jacques Olivier wondered how we could make such a species disappear. This is what pushed him to look for it, to go especially to the Balkans and to reintroduce it in 2022 at the edge of the lake. Lake Geneva, in the Parc des Aigles du Léman. 350 eagles / 80 species. Today there are 5 pairs of Bald Eagles.
Do you have an address to recommend to us in Morzine?
I suggest others on Europe1.fr but I love Croc Blanc: an ecological guest chalet. Olivier, the owner took over this chalet that his grandfather built in 1954 www.croc-blanc-chalet.com.
Web addresses
La Bergerie has been run by the same Morzin family for a long time. Jean Vuarnet lived his youth within the walls of this chalet.... Free for children under 12 years old
Bed and breakfast Les mazots des fées: Your choice of charming rooms or private mazot / eco-responsible trend
Charming apartment Les Voroches
THE FOUÉES
Or fouaces…tradition from Saumur.
Delicious puffy buns that are served hot and stuffed.
Their history goes back to the time of the large communal ovens (middle ages) / Rabelais talks about it in the 16th century in Gargantua…
They were used to test the temperature of wood-fired ovens in the absence of thermometers: we threw small pieces of pasta / too cold, they did not rise, too hot, they burned.
The recipe is super simple, that of a bread dough - 200 gr of flour - 15 cl of lukewarm water - 1 pinch of salt - 7 g of fresh yeast Dilute the yeast in water / mix the flour and salt / add the water and knead / put in a bowl, cover with film and leave to rest for 2 hours in a not too cool room / roll out the dough and cut it into small pieces about ten cm / cover with a cloth and leave to rest again for 1 hour / Bake in an oven at 250° Filling: snail butter, goat cheese and honey, rillettes… |