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In France, the route is entirely in Alsace, which has a cuisine markedly different to France as a whole, showing strong Germanic influence. Pork is the dominant meat and the most famous Alsatian dish is choucroute garnie, a dish of various cuts of pork meat and sausages served with sauerkraut heated in white wine. A typical snack is tarte flambée or flammekueche, a thin pizza-style base covered with white cheese, onions and bacon and cooked in a wood oven.

Tarte flambée, a speciality of Alsace, served with Gewurztraminer white wine (Stage 10)

Although the variety of dishes offered in Dutch restaurants is generally wider than in Germany, cooking is usually pan-European and traditional Dutch cooking is fairly hard to find. The Dutch eat a lot of fish, including maatjes (raw marinated herring), kibbeling (deep-fried cod nuggets) and mosselen (mussels), the latter two often served with patats (chips/French fries) and mayonnaise. The Netherlands is a country of dairy farming and produces a large amount of cheese, the best known varieties being Edam (red, round like a ball) and Gouda (yellow, round like a wheel). Dutch apple cake is a popular dessert.