Go to Recipe Go to Video The French Are Involved in Everything As often happens with an amazing invention, culinary or otherwise, the French are hovering close by. This appears to be the case with one of the best cookies ever invented, shortbread. Here is the legend: The French who were at court with …
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. …
Go to Recipe Go to Video Pate brisée literally means “broken pastry”. Translations can often be somewhat awkward, making something so ethereally delicious sound like something that just crashed to the floor and shattered into a thousand pieces. But the allusion isn’t all wrong, for the pate brisée that results in the recipe you will …
Go to Recipe Go to Video The history of Sauce Béchamel is a knotty one of subterfuge and false claims, heavy stuff for a sauce made with four simple ingredients. It begs a question: does this matter? There is only one answer. YES! Because what would French cuisine be without mystery and intrigue? It is …
