Full sky, full nature, another Alsace. That of the Hautes-Vosges du Haut-Rhin, here impressive by their escarpments, there gently mountainous. That of the Ballons and the high-chames, a huge forest, hiking trails and transhumance. An Haute-Alsace which has a double view, to the east over the Rhineland universe, to the west over the Lorraine Vosges where its herds found pasture for a long time.
The blue lines of his distant? those of the Black Forest, the Swiss Alps, the Jura. This illustrated, documented book, makes discover or rediscover the granitic Vosges of “68”, Liepvrette, Weiss, Fecht, Thur and Doller, white waters and lakes, ridges and valleys . They have marked geological and geographical particularities, but also human ones. It is those farm-inns that are completely peasant and completely welcoming, which impose a binding charter on themselves and claim it.
Farms of mountain breeders, mostly “milkers” (which means “marcaire”), mostly cheese makers and rediscovering Munster, promoting their products and those of their neighbours, their cream, their cottage cheese, sometimes their fruits. And, always, a succulent meat, bovine above all, that also of the pigs fed with whey near the barn. Breeders who pick blueberries in their season, who have refined their gifts for typical, always generous cuisine.
Jacques-Louis Delpal finished this book, texts and photos, when the very selective association of Farmers-Innkeepers of Haut-Rhin celebrated its fortieth anniversary. This album of flavors and all the greens shows various landscapes, from Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines to the approach of Sundgau, evokes moraines and summer meadows, is populated by Vosges cows as symbolic as storks, herds , expands panoramas.
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