Think Germany and sauerkraut, Korea and kimchi, Japan and sushi, America and hamburgers. Think Spain and paella, Italy and pasta, Russia and borschtsch. But what is THE French signature dish?
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, signature dish, World • Tags: Food, France, recipes, World Food
The street markets in Paris will ruin me sooner or later, financially. But this morning, I couldn’t resist to a perfect daurade that I turned into a simple and noble French dish.
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, Lunch, nature, Paris, poetry, seafood, signature dish • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, recipes, Seafood
I often think about how privileged France as a culinary country is. The two oceans alone – the Mediterranean to the South, the Atlantic to the West – are an endless source for excellent ingredients. I just prepared some excellent palourdes, hard clams.
Categories: Apéro, Dinner, France, seafood • Tags: Cooking, Food, Food photography, French cuisine, recipes
I confess that I’ve spent half of Holy Friday cooking. I actually don’t know whether that’s considered a sin by our Christian authorities (I guess so). To defend myself, I would argue that it was all about fish. I even created an original dish of my own!
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking, Cooking Skills, Food, France, recipes, Seafood
From time to time the animal inside of me wants to get fed, and then I take a walk to meet a great butcher in the Rue des Archives here in Paris and go for meat. For a slab of Fleur d’Aubrac.
Categories: Dinner, France, hero butchers, skills, Whatever Works • Tags: Beef, Cooking, Food, Meat
Don’t call a lamb from the lovely French region of Lozère just another lamb. It really is much more and you can taste it. Forget about those deep-frozen guys shipped around the world from New Zealand (nothing against NZ!). A Lozère lamb, nicely prepared, will offer rare culinary pleasures, amazing texture, and a sound taste. I cooked this one in the oven – a lamb shoulder from a Parisian expert butcher in the tiny Rue du Pas-de-la-Mule – for five […]
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, hero butchers • Tags: Cooking, Food, Lamb
Last night, I tried it again. Cured Cod, Stockfish, Bacalhau. It was a moment of decision-making. I would either create something alright – or never touch a Morue again.
Categories: Dinner, France, good food, seafood, signature dish, skills • Tags: Cooking Skills, Fish, Food
I’ve been out of Paris over the week-end, we’ve visited a dog breeder’s farm in the Sologne region to find us a new flat coated retriever but our short trip happened to turn into a culinary excursion, too. We roamed close to Aubigny-sur-Nèr, that’s very close to the banks of the Loire, so close, in fact, that we had to fight some inundations on the way.
Categories: chefs, France, good food, Lunch, Michelin • Tags: Cooking Skills, Culture, Food, France, French food, Loire
