Le Café des Mines: have you ever tasted asphalt-cooked ham?

Asphalt is known for all sorts of healing and gustatory properties, such as lavender scent, and menthol fragrances that soothe migraines and colds. Le Café des Mines, located directly on the asphalt mine site, invites you to experience some of these benefits, such as ham cooked in asphalt. The meat is hermetically wrapped and dipped in the boiling hot substance. In this manner, the dish becomes saturated with scents characteristic of asphalt, and is something which miners prepared in the olden days to celebrate Sainte Barbe. You will not come across this dish anywhere other than in this ancient wood depot which has been transformed to resemble a 19th C. mine.  

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A Sainte-Barbe menu at Le Café des Mines for 25 francs