At Home In France Eating and Entertaining with the French

by Petkanas, Christopher; Naudin, Jean-Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780753807088
• ISBN10: 0753807084
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-30
• Publisher: Seven Dials

Summary

Visit 18 French households, from Brittany to Provence, from farmhouse to apartment, and experience each setting's traditional cuisine rustique or haute cuisine. 70 recipes here include stuffed duck; fine cheese, orange chocolate cake, and succulent seafood.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(4)
The Provence of ochre and aioli	15	(14)
A painter's respect for a maison de maitre	29	(12)
Courances --- chateau pas cher	41	(11)
The poultry and primeurs of a Gascon farmhouse	52	(15)
The cult of the bull in the Camargue	67	(13)
A fromager's table in the Vaucluse	80	(12)
Mastering the art of Simca	92	(11)
Drama and dinner in the sixteenth	103	(10)
Hiding away in the Bois de Boulogne	113	(12)
An ancestral vineyard in the Beaujolais	125	(13)
Seafood and taouarc'h on a Brittany island	138	(12)
La pomme et sa transformation	150	(13)
A new life for a maison de famille	163	(12)
Supper in an Alsatian stube	175	(11)
A gardener's answer in the south of France	186	(13)
The shuttered life of a Riviera villa	199	(11)
Madame Beauvieux, a paysanne in Perigord	210	(13)
A harvest fete in the Bordelais	223	(13)
Directory	236	(2)
Bibliography	238	(1)
Index	239