Spiced Pilau Rice with Beets Recipe
When I returned to Paris after two years of fabulous eats in California, one of…
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French Holiday Recipes | Chocolate & Zucchini
Christmas is just a few days away (not to stress you out or anything) and…
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Chocolate Buckwheat Pound Cake Recipe
I love pound cakes, or quatre-quarts* in French. As a child, I went through a…
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Homemade Galette des Rois Recipe
If you’ve ever been in France during the month of January, surely you’ve noticed the…
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Winter Vegetable Curry Recipe | Chocolate & Zucchini
Do you want to hear one of the least publicized benefits of working from home?…
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Foie Gras in French Cuisine. Foie Gras is Fattened Goose or Duck Liver Foie. Foie Gras on French Menus
fromBehind the French MenubyBryan G. Newmanbehindthefrenchmenu@gmail.com Seared duck foie grasPhotograph courtesy of yosoynutswww.flickr.com/photos/yosoynuts/4094595898/ Foie Gras is…
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Behind the French Menu: Jambon Sec (Cru)
Hams on sale. Hams in FranceFrench cured ham comes from the upper part of the rear legs…
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The Valençay AOP Cheese and the Valençay AOP Wines. The Town of Valençay and the Chateau de Valençay.
fromBehind the French MenubyBryan G. Newmanbehindthefrenchmenu@gmail.com The Valençay Cheese.Photograph courtesy of Frédérique Voisin-Demerywww.flickr.com/photos/vialbost/5486322753/ The Valençay Cheese…
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Armagnac one of France’s two fabulous AOP grape brandies.
fromBehind the French MenubyBryan G. Newmanbehindthefrenchmenu@gmail.com The Armagnac tulip-shaped glass.Locally, it is preferred to a snifter. …
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Dining in the Five Departments of Old Aquitaine: the Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, and the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
fromBehind the French MenubyBryan G. Newmanbehindthefrenchmenu@gmail.com Old Aquitaine and its five departmentsAfter the French Revolution.From the…