Local products Hautes-Alpes
Les tourtons
These nice small fritters are a specialty of the Champsaur Valley. You will love them salted (potatoes, spinach, goat cheese) or sweet (apple, prune).
Cooked directly on the market their smell will follow you and will give you an appetite.
The recipe: http://www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette_tourtons-des-alpes-ou-de-champsaur_27676.aspx
Cheese
As the local production, the cheese varieties are numerous, blue cheese cow from Bayard, goat and ewe cheese, ewe tomme cheese with genepy favour, Queyras cheese and last but not least the Banon from Laragne.
For more information: http://www.laiterie-col-bayard.com
The Champsaur tart
Another Champsaur specialty, this tart is traditionally home made. Strawberry, blueberry, prune flavored you will enjoy it for a picnic in the mountain.
Alps honey
The beekeepers in the Hautes Alpes offer you to discover this amazing local product. Mountain honey, lavender honey, larch honey you will eat them without moderation.
Apples and pears
All along the Durance valley you will find many orchards with apples, pears and peaches trees. Tasty juice is also made from these fruits.
