Vive la France! If you missed Bastille Day earlier this month, here is your second chance to celebrate francophone culture! Good Food this week was all about France and its food culture - or possible ...
By the time I made my first trip to France, I was already an adult married lady, not the free-wheeling, junior-year-abroad backpacker I had imagined I would be. Somehow, that whole rite of passage esc...
I wish I could say that I first tasted cannelés in France, escaping from a Bordeaux bakery with a glossy brown cake that could easily fit in the palm of my hand and eating it while it was still warm....
While preparing the final Spring Cure post over on Apartment Therapy, we came across the kitchen of Fabien Barral in Auvergne, France. His home has graced several magazines in the UK and we're privi...
Rachel's question yesterday about nutmeg graters and Microplanes reminded me of this little jar I picked up in France last autumn. It turns out that most whole nutmegs sold in the supermarket have a g...
These posters from a little French general store on Nantucket remind us of old periodic tables from chemistry class. We spotted the "trees of France" poster over at Apartment Therapy, and when we went...
Look! Amy at Apartment Therapy just tipped us off to a tour of Pierre Hermé's apartment over at The Selby. Here are a few shots of his kitchen, and a link to a full tour of this modern pastry m...
The current 100% import tariff on Roquefort has never proven to be a significant impediment for its consumption. But what would an increase to 300% do? We may have to find out, thanks to one of Bush's...
We like bright pictures and reminders of warmer times during the cold winter. (And it's really cold nearly everywhere right now -- maybe excluding Los Angeles and a few other lucky places!) So here's ...
When I was in France last fall, I took a wonderful cooking class with Rosa Jackson, and during the class I was introduced to a new sort of peeler. This is a very simple peeler, but it worked so nicely...
We all go through a lot of sugar this time of year, and those tiny grains seem to be underfoot all the time in our kitchen. So we are in an especially good place to appreciate this perfect sugar packa...
"There are three enemies of olive oil," says Nadim Beyrouti, proprietor and hospitable host of Oliviera in Nice, France. "Light, heat," he pauses. "And hungry friends." This is just one of the many ...
Do you know the real meaning of panisse (as in Chez Panisse)? Do you know what duck magret is? How about how to make a pumpkin casserole? I didn't know any of these things until two weeks ago, when I ...
Here's a small, colorful note from my time in France last week. At the market some of the pears had dabs of something bright and scarlet on top. What was it? ...
While in France last week I thoroughly enjoyed prowling the morning market, its stretch of tables brilliant with fruit, vegetables, and delicious local specialties. Here's the local variety of pumpkin...
One of the clichés about Europe and France in particular is the omnipresence of bread. And not just any bread, but crackly, crispy crust with soft and tender innards bread. I'm happy to report and s...
This week until Oct. 19 is a national event in France -- La Semaine du Goût (or Tasting Week). Started 18 years ago, it is a week-long effort to help school children cultivate their taste buds by edu...
We are ecstatic; we found an inexpensive source of the French classic tempered glass Duralex tumblers in their original pattern: the Picardie. First, some background. ...
All over France in the summer, people sit in outdoor cafes and drink a tall glass of pastis mixed with water. A quintessential French experience, pastis is a liqueur made from anise....
The post below from Kristin made us sigh for French flea market treasures. It would be so nice to roam French flea markets and find small treasures to make our kitchens more beautiful. Fortunately for...
French cuisine is perhaps the one kind of cooking where almost all of us feel uncomfortable off-roading it without a recipe. Julia Child, Jacques Pepin and other chefs of the last fifty years have pu...
On the way back to Geneva from Languedoc, we stopped at another market in the French Alps region of Rhône-Alpes. Here are some pictures from this beautiful market; we hope you enjoy them....
We were in Geneva, Switzerland attending a conference last week, and had a few days off, so we hopped the border to France to visit a good friend in Languedoc-Rousillion, a region in the south central...
Have you ever seen such a distinctive tin of tea? This is one of the very famous black tins of Mariage Frères tea. Mariage Frères is a French tea company that has been around since 1854, and with go...
Pissaladière [pee-sah-lah-DYEHR] n. Tart topped with anchovies, onions, and olives - a specialty of Nice, France As Clotilde says over Chocolate & Zucchini, it's hard to go wrong with an onion t...
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