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Posts tagged “French cooking”

Building Blocks: How to Make a Roux

Don't get flustered by the fancy French name! Among all the classic French techniques, making a roux is not only the simplest, but also the most useful. It forms the base for everything from a creamy...

Cooking By Feel: French Ingredients and Flavors

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...