"Embrace everyday cooking with Susan Loomis's Plat du Jour, her appealing take on the French formule. Discover the pleasures of cooking-and eating-with this French approach to everyday meals. Featured on bistro menus and dinner tables throughout France, the plat du jour is the centerpiece of a two-course meal, a formula that Susan Loomis cleverly presents here. By pairing substantial main dishes such as Boeuf Bourguignon, Poule au Pot, and Bouillabaisse,...

"A joyful, aspirational, and approachable guide to embracing life the Parisian way, from American expat and founder of the French lifestyle brand Madame de la Maison. The French are known for their joie de vivre-celebrating the little things in life-a philosophy Ajiri Aki has embraced over the past ten years of living in Paris. Nigerian American Aki fell in love with Paris on her first brief visit there (only a single day) while in college. With a...

Hillary Davis shows us in French from the Market that French food isn't always haute cuisine. Traditional, daily French cooking is provincial and farm-driven. It is also an art, that uses the freshest and finest ingredients available from gardens, markets, and local vendors to put nourishing meals on the table. And, as Davis point out, French home cooking is not hard. The 100 plus recipes for starters, soups, salads, fish, poultry, meats, vegetables,...

"Flaky, fluffy, warm, exquisite-from madeleines and eclairs to baguettes and pain au chocolat, these delicious culinary delights bring you to the heart of French baking. Perfect for the aspiring pastry chef and the experienced baker alike, this cookbook provides you with tips and techniques from the experts themselves, so you can create perfection every time. This comprehensive guide includes step-by-step instructions for every bread, pastry, and...

Alex Jackson explores the cooking of France’s borderlands: from the geographical to the historical, linguistic, and metaphorical. His journey takes us through the Riviera, where the border has shifted many times but the cooking remains of a delicious whole, to the Occitan valleys of the Italian Alps, the Franco-German cooking of Alsace, and to Marseille, one of the most important ports of the Mediterranean, and its historic (and current) links with...

The Great British Bakeoff alumni and winner of the NYE 2023 special, Manon Lagr eve, shares over 80 French classics - simplified or with a twist - for the modern baker. In her debut co okbook Simple French Baking , Manon proves that elegant French baking does not have to be difficult or pretentious to make. With just a few basic pieces of baking equipment and Manon's secret short-cuts, you too can master the French pastries and desserts of your dreams....