21 July: The Tour de France conquers the Pyrenees, and a bowl of Garbure
On 21 July 1910 the Tour de France rode over the Tourmalet and the Aubisque for the first time, and Octave Lapize called the organisers "assassins". The Aubisque stands in the Béarn, and only the Béarn's garbure, a cabbage and bean soup thick enough to stand a spoon in, could match a day that tough.
Garbure
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Garbure is a thick cabbage and bean soup from Gascony and the Béarn in south-west France. Cabbage, white beans, potatoes, carrots, turnips and leeks are simmered slowly with garlic, herbs and cured ham, and often with duck or goose confit.
Read about Garbure and get the recipe →What happened
Stage 10 of the 1910 Tour de France, Luchon to Bayonne, crosses the Tourmalet and the Col d'Aubisque, the race's first big day in the Pyrenees.
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