Gourmet products local specialties and wines Lorraine

On the heights of Lorraine, the Ragald family has been growing manioc for five generations. They are proud to pass on this ancestral know-how. Here, everything is done in the most traditional way in the world: cassava is planted, cultivated, uprooted and worked to transform it into flour. Different stages follow one another: the tubers are grated and peeled to extract the pulp, before being cooked in large wood-fired stoves. Ten minutes later, the famous cassava, the Caribbean galette, is ready to be eaten.

Michel La Rougery, the owner of the premises, is the first organic banana producer on the island. Michel's choice of organic bananas has been a long time coming: his father was a conventional farmer and when Michel took over the family farm, it was a long struggle to produce a healthy banana without pesticides. His farm covers more than 37 hectares of land which has been Ecocert certified since 2014 with certified chlordecone-free soils. In addition to bananas (dessert or yellow), he produces mangoes, avocados, chilli peppers and many other vegetable crops.