Bordeaux
About Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called "Bordelais" (masculine) or "Bordelaises" (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region.
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A lot of French wine cellars have rat problems, and you get populations of alcoholic rats, to the extent where there is a traditional Bordeaux recipe for rat — you grill alcoholic rats. It specifies alcoholic rats as part of the recipe because they've drunk rats.
from No Such Thing As The Number Six, 2018-02-23 at 00:22:20 · read transcript
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In a lot of ways France wasn't really a, you know, a coalesced nation until it was over. My theory is that the whole of the Hundred Years' War was just about wine, because it was triggered when Philip VI confiscated aquitaine, which is region that was owned by the English, confiscated it from Edward III. It was in Gaskony, and Gaskony was crucial to England because it contained Bordeaux and it made Claret. England imported so much Claret.
521: No Such Thing As A Human-Sized Peanut, 2024-03-07 · listen
In a lot of ways, France wasn't really a coalesced nation until it was over. My theory is that the whole of the Hundred Years' War was just about wine because it was triggered when Philip VI confiscated Aquitaine, which is a region that was owned by the English, confiscated it from Edward III. It was in Gascany and Gascany was crucial to England because it contained Bordeaux and it made claret. England imported so much claret.
No Such Thing As A Human-Sized Peanut, 2024-03-07 · listen
I hope, oh gosh, I do hope not, because I love France. Me too. Look, it's possible. I actually like it a little bit too much. I'm thinking that that area around Bordeaux is very nice. Do you think maybe James, you might actually have a claim to Gascony? I just, I do drink a lot of wine. You might, you know. Just give it a try.
521: No Such Thing As A Human-Sized Peanut, 2024-03-07 · listen
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