FOR CHOCOLATE AND FORAGING
In Valence, chef Anne-sophie Pic serves snails and veal kidneys at André (anne-sophie-pic.com). Nearby in Tain-l’hermitage, La Cité du Chocolat Valrhona is home to a molten chocolate wall (citeduchocolat.com). The charming Le Clair de la Plume in Grignan is a hotel, restaurant and bistro overlooked by a grand hilltop palace, surrounded by lavender fields (clairplume.com). Visit the tiny hillside village of Brantes, Vaulcuse, and join Les Aventurières du Goût, who go foraging for food before cooking it (lesaventurieresdugout.org). For more information, visit ladrometourisme. com, rhone-wines.com and provence guide.com. Stephen Davy-osborne