It’s a numbers game

Something’s amiss, or a-missing, in the French regions. Plus a recipe for courgette fritters and this week’s market haul.

There’s a crisis in the 34, and similar events have been reported in 33, 46 and 85. Facebook message boards for foreign residents of France are full of it, hence the numbers. There is a habit amongst us immigrants of using the numbers of our departments as a shorthand to describe where we live. It’s pretty useless, as shorthand goes. I know the Hérault …