December 2009
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How to make espagnole sauce - chicagotribune.com →
Like any French mother sauce, espagnole is not meant to be served as is. Rather, it’s a base for any number of other, more complex sauces.
French Food for the Holidays - The Early Show -... →
If you really want to “wow” your dinner guests over the holidays, how about cooking some French cuisine? Clotilde Dusoulier, editor of the English version of “I Know How to Cook,” a staple for French chefs for over 75 years, shared how to create a traditional French holiday menu for your table.
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The woman who taught France how to drink - The... →
[Empress] Josephine was also a celebrated hostess and, although not a great drinker, a great collector of wine. The official inventory of her possessions at her death includes more than 13,000 bottles of wine from all over the world, from the Cape to Hungary to Champagne. Study of her 1814 “wine list” reveals something that may seem unsurprising but was, at that time, extraordinary....
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French Cuisine Today According to Le Fooding &... →
An interview with Alexandre Cammas of Le Fooding.