There’s More to the French Boulangerie than Croissants and Pains au Chocolat It’s All About Bakers and War The croissant was invented by Viennese bakers who saved Vienna from an attack by the Ottomans… Jump to video and list Croissants and Pains au Chocolat Everyone who comes to Paris heads to a bakery for a …
Once a Simple Quick Bread From the griddles of the British Isles to the chic cafés of Paris, the humble scone has come a long way. It was once a simple, and surely very heavy, quick bread made throughout the British Isles with the grains at hand, primarily oats, but also barley and, perhaps, wheat. …
Meanwhile, we are enjoying pre-Easter, which is extra enticing with chocolates (not JUST fish!) absolutely everywhere, including a basket of gold-wrapped eggs at the poissonerie this morning. Other Easter novelties at the market include asparagus, juicy radishes, scallops, and razor clams both in their shells, and both fresh from the sea in Brittany, and small …
Go to Recipe Go to Video It’s spring, and all the leaves, buds, bunnies, and everything else in nature is bursting awake during this most gloriously alive season! For me, this holiday is the ultimate fête of life, and I grew up celebrating it with a big Easter brunch, an Easter basket filled with goodies, …
Go to Recipe Go to Video That’s what a little American girl said when she was visiting and I served soft boiled eggs with toasty, buttered “mouillettes” for dinner. She was beside herself with joy to dip toast into her soft yolk over and over. “We only eat eggs for breakfast,” she said, her mouth …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Coming home from school when we were growing up in England was, for me, like hitting base camp after climbing Mt. Everest. Of five siblings, I was the one to be sent far from home each day to an English Catholic school. The others went to the American school …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Granola. The word slips off the tongue, evoking bowls of grains toasted or untoasted, with or without dried fruit, sweetened or unsweetened. It also evokes a category of person dressed in natural fiber clothing, living off the land, with long hair and, if male, stubble, strong hands, and ruddy …
Go to Video A typical French breakfast consists of baguette with butter and jam, a croissant or pain au chocolate, maybe a chausson aux pommes (apple turnover), and a big bowl of steaming coffee. It’s a marvel, a magical assemblage of delicious elements. Steer Roping Needs More A cowboy or girl might not be able …
Go to Video Many might experience a traditional French breakfast and say “Why, that’s not a breakfast at all!” But they would be wrong, because like so many a French gastronomic traditions, the French breakfast is simply perfect. After all, it includes four major food groups: coffee, bread, butter, and jam. Nutritional Guidelines? But what …
