 This tradition goes back to Sir Thomas Coventry, who intended to remind the citizens of having lunch on time.The cuisine of Nice is especially close to those of Provence but also Liguria and Piedmont and uses local ingredients (olive oil, anchovies, fruit and vegetables) but also those from more remote regions, in particular from Northern Europe, because ships which came to pick up olive oil arrived full of food products, such as dried haddock.Nice has a few local dishes.