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Of course there is nothing new under the sun. Flatbreads have been baked from India to the Middle East and beyond in every shape and kind of wood-burning oven, truly since time immemorial. It is thanks to the Neopolitans, however, that it has been transformed into one of the world’s favorite dish. Go to Video …
A Pizza Lesson with Award Winning Pizzaiolo, in Naples Read More »
Go to Recipe Go to Video I spent two years researching the ITALIAN FARMHOUSE cookbook, visiting farms, growers, restaurants in rural areas, and in some areas no so rural. I began with a basic knowledge of Italian food and a certain skepticism due to my French culinary training and finished the book with utmost respect. …
I watched the spectacular Bastille Day parade on the Champs Elysées (from the comfort of a big, cool home in Normandy), for the very first time this year, and was entranced. I grew up on military bases and am no stranger to brassy uniforms, fighter planes, salutes, and elegantly proud looks. But as in so …
When my son was born, I had just moved to Maine and was mourning my home in Brooklyn. When Joe came into the world, my literary agent called from New York to congratulate me. “What can I send you?” she asked, the soul of sweetness and generosity. While I might have answered “A chef,” because …
You can take the cook out of America, but no, you cannot take America out of the cook, I think each time I make a cake like this one. It is SO American! Not at all French!! Not that I don’t love all those creamy, swirly, crispy, yummy French confections like Napoleons, and Paris Brest, …
You Can take the cook out of America, but can you take america out of the cook? Read More »
Go to Recipe Go to Video Each Herb is a Universe The other day Fabien Phillip, the grower at the Marché de Saxe where I go twice a week, came up to me and said “Susan, I’ve got a few tomatoes if you want some.” He pointed around the back of his stand, and there, …
I admit to being a Normandy chauviniste which means that when something is delicious in Normandy, it is the most delicious in the world. The Best Sablé in Normandy While doing research in Normandy, I discovered the very best, most tender sablés in a patisserie in a small town called Caumont l’Eventé. It was by …
The apéritif hour is one of the best, the transition from whatever the day has entailed to whatever the evening will bring. Glasses are raised, snacks are nibbled, cares are washed away, and a fine meal begins. To Open This wasn’t always the case. Apéritif, which comes from the Latin “aperitivus,” to open, referred to …
Who was the daring chef to make the very first omelet and defy all manner of French economical thinking? She or he was a courageous being, for anyone who knows the French knows they are thrifty and clever in all ways. Which means that to make an omelet meant breaking many eggs and those eggs …
Go to Video I don’t know if you can hear the sigh of relief in France. There are Plenty of Cherries For All Why? Because the cherry harvest has climbed back up to normal after several years of being short. Merci, mother nature and a return to normalcy – there were no untoward freezes, no …
