TASTE OF THE TOUR: The Tour's perfectly timed fish soup

SALON-DE-PROVENCE, France (AP) — After 19 stages, 3,414.5 kilometers (2,121 miles) of Tour de France roads, and unspeakable mounds of calories for those who followed the riders from Germany through Belgium and Luxembourg and across five French mountain ranges, the marathon of cycling, eating and drinking is almost done.

Home of the only French football club to win the Champions League, Marseille's Stade Velodrome will stage the start and finish of this short 22.5-kilometer (14-mile) time trial.

Good bouillabaisse requires patience and lots of choice ingredients, including several fish species (red rascasse, sea robin, gurnard, John Dory, monkfish, conger) and crustaceans (shrimps, little green crabs).

[...] cook a stock with the fish heads and tails, tomatoes and saffron.

When he left Marseille for Chelsea, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba donated one of his shirts to the cathedral, which displayed it.