Mustard ice-cream is hot stuff in France

The scorching weather this summer has generated a boom in ice-cream sales in France - and a colourful explosion of exotic and bizarre flavours.

Lovers of ice-cream can now eat glaces that taste of grass or are flavoured with mustard, Roquefort cheese or oysters.

"Twenty years ago some of these flavours would have been regarded as totally dotty," said Ludovic Enée, a Paris chef who specialises in outlandish desserts. "Nobody is shocked any more."

Most of the stranger offerings can be found only in restaurants, where there is a gourmet trend towards salty or spicy ice-creams and sorbets that are served as part of a starter or main dish, not as a dessert.

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