Actualités et reportages

Without gluten recipes
2009 Oct 06 : Today we will deal with this harmful decease that is intolerance to gluten (or so called coeliac decease). This nice menu should be appropriate to everyone...
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Queen Tomato's paradise
2009 Sep 24 : On last September 12th and 13st took place at the Castle of La Bourdaisiére (in Touraine, near Montlouis-sur-Loire) the 11th Tomato Festival ; here is a small report in image that should hopefully give you the wish to participate to the next 12th one...
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A so nice journey
2009 Sep 04 : It is true that my children and friends have had a real great idea in offring me, for my birthday anniversary, a fixed rate package called "Silver Lily" in a 3-star Michelin resort, to allow my wife and myself to have dinner and night in one of the famous "Relais et Chateaux" resorts chain.
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Recipes for persons suffering from type 2 -diabetes
2009 Jun 24 : Yes, we can prepare and eat good food and suffer somewhat from type 2-diabetes (this is my personal case). I react by avoiding certain products and ingredients but I always try to enjoy my meals as much as possible and for that I adapt and create some recipes.

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Coffee tasting
2009 Apr 08 : Second and last part of our report on coffee and still based upon documents forwarded by Mr Rocher, we now focus on aroma and tasdte of the coffee...
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Coffee, how to choose it and make it
2009 Mar 31 : On the 2009 Agricultural Fair of Paris, Chef Patrick Asfaux has met André Rocher, "Mr Coffee" for over 37 years who shares with us his experience.
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Kir
2009 Jan 18 : Kir is probably the French most popular pre-lunch/dinner drink ("apéritif") worldwide but do you know where its name come from ?
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Festive Menu 2008
2008 Dec 08 : Two years after our first "festive menu", we renew it by providing you with 14 new exclusive recipes for Christmas and/or New Eve, gathered to form 3 separate menus.
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The Lobster à l'américaine Story
2008 Nov 11 : We are now nearly fully sure of the validity of the "à l'américaine" name of this recipe, to the contrary of the "à l'armoricaine" one.
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Maghreb cooking
2008 Nov 02 : After having paid a visit to our Canadian friends, we continue our gastronomic trips outside of France a little more south, to a part of North Africa called Maghreb and composed of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisa, where the cooking is full of fragrances, spices, salted/sweet tastes and conviviality.
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