How To Cook French, With Shortcuts
From NPR, a review of Dorie Greenspan’s new cookbook, Around My French Table.
November 02 2010
October 01 2010
September 22 2010
Vignes et Vins: Un Monde a Decouvrir (Vines and Wines: A World to Discover) by Sandrine Duclos and Cécile Gallineau aims to tell 7 to12-year-olds how lucky they are to live in a country where the culture of the vine plays such an important role.
September 01 2010
Wife admits to killing chef, stuffing body in freezer
The common-law wife of a renowned French chef who was found dead in a freezer last Tuesday is now under investigation for aggravated manslaughter. Guylene Collober, 51, confessed to punching retired chef Jean Francois Poinard in the stomach during an argument, saying that he fell, hit his head and died eighteen months ago.
Profile of the Winemaker Jean-François Fillastre
“I’ve met many exceptional people in the wine business over the years, but Jean-François Fillastre is one of the most extraordinary. Mr. Fillastre is the proprietor of Domaine du Jaugaret, a tiny producer of St. Julien, and the centerpiece of my column on the vigneron side of Bordeaux.”
August 19 2010
The Baker’s Apprentice: French Yogurt Cake
Emily Weinstein is learning to bake with the food writer and cookbook author Dorie Greenspan.
August 17 2010
July 23 2010
How to Save Rural France - TIME
In France, life on the farm is changing, with farmers having to cultivate more land, more efficiently and at less cost
—Kings of Pastry : Ruth ReichlBut mostly this wonderful film explains – although that is clearly not its intention - why there is a new food movement in France, a reaction against this antique tradition of technique. The young chefs have shaken off this world, along with everything it represents. Watching this film about the MOF is like watching a ghost go floating out of the room. I’m not sorry to see it go.
March 30 2010
—Le Fooding, the French challenge to haute cuisine. : The New Yorker…tell me what you think about eating, and I will tell you only that you are French.
January 27 2010
December 23 2009
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.
December 10 2009
French Food for the Holidays - The Early Show - CBS News
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.
The woman who taught France how to drink - The Independent
[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. Almost half of her bottles and barrels came from vineyards around Bordeaux. Most of them, though little-known in France at that time, would later come to be recognised as among the greatest names in wine: the four “top” Médoc châteaux of Latour, Lafite, Margaux and Haut-Brion.
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