famous person Recipes :
 | Recipes : Provence style Tomatoes Here is the mythical recipe of the tomatoes 'à la Provençale' (Provence style tomatoes - note of the translator : Proven... |
 | Recipes : Tarte Tatin This recipe, created by the Tatin sisters, at the beginning of the 20th century in their restaurant of La Motte Beuvron ... |
 | Recipes : Tapenade Ingredients for a bowl of 'tapenade' : 250 grams of stoned (pitted) black olives (from Nyons if you can find them - N... |
 | Recipes : Chantilly cream We call "Chantilly cream" a fresh sugared whipped cream. Number of people have taken for granted that it has been inven... |
 | Recipes : Beurre Blanc It is believed that the creation of the beurre blanc sauce came from a mistake made by the excellent cook of the "Marqui... |
 | Recipes : Greek style mushrooms For once, I will give the classical recipe, as the school manuals (Planche et Sylvestre) were teaching us, such a long t... |
 | Recipes : Pork steak Alsatian Style It is unfortunate, that this remarkable cut of pork "rouelle"(French for small wheel) is hardly served any more. The "ro... |
 | Recipes : Hot oysters in a Jurançon sabayon For 4 servings : 24 specially fattened greenish oysters (size N°3) 1/10 liter (half a cup) of Jurançon(*) wine 1 thin... |
 | Recipes : Parmentier with duck, foie gras and truffles A recipe of our menu 'special end of the year celebrations'. Cottage pie 'parmentier' (*) with duck, foie gras and bl... |
 French specialties : Chaource Chaource, like numbers of French cheeses, has very remote origins. Known since the Middle Ages, the tradition says that ... |
 French specialties : Saint-Nectaire Introduced at the court of Louis XIV by the Marshal of France Henri de Sennecterre (1600-1681), the Saint-Nectaire chees... |
 | News : A nice week-end in Lyon As we do from time to time during the year, direction Lyon to pay a visit to some beloved friends. Her,'Speedy' Brigitt... |
 | News : The 'Madeleine' story Stanislas, king of Poland used to have, as a second home, the castle of Commercy, in a small town of the Lorraine region... |
 | News : The Lobster à l'américaine Story 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'ar... |
 | News : Miss Nellie and Mr Auguste This is a short tribute to Auguste Escoffier, the so famous French cook who was active mainly at the turn of the XIXth c... |
 | News : A few days in Burgundy As usual during this calamitous August, we leave Paris under the rain to Val de Mercy. I know pretty well this region be... |
 | News : Opening oysters Traditional activity during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, the opening of oysters remains a dangerous technica... |
 | News : Lannemayou et fils, producers of Floc de Gascogne. "Hello, for all those which are not likely yet to know Floc de Gascogne, could you explain us what is this breuvage and... |
 | News : Asparagus Asparagus is a latin word. Asparagus had been first appreciated by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They then ... |
 | News : mixed flavoured butters The basic principle is the same in all cases : you must soften the butter and incorporate into it one or several flavour... |
 | News : the omelette In the Journal of Jean Heroard (1551-1628), doctor of the young future king Louis XIII, we could read : "often, in the a... |
