Hotel La Mère Poulard
Historic inn famed for soufflé omelettes whisked in copper bowls and cooked over an open wood fire.
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About this audio guide
This guide to La Mère Poulard on the Grande Rue of Mont-Saint-Michel follows Annette Poulard, a maid who arrived with the abbey's restoration architect in the eighteen seventies and stayed to keep an inn. It turns on a practical problem set by the tides, a copper pan over a wood fire, and a recipe letter people still argue about. Stand near the windows where the cooks whisk the eggs.
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