French Table: J. Barthouil Foie Gras and Smoked Salmon
Foie gras and smoked salmon, staples of the French celebratory and holiday table, are both produced with excellence and tradition by J. Barthouil, a family business located in southwest France with a shop in the Marais in Paris.
Cheese: Jérôme Spruytte’s Pont l’Evêque Fermier (Pays d’Auge, Normandy)
Veering off onto the country roads of the Pays d'Auge area of Normandy, let's meet Jérôme Spuytte, one of the few remaining producers of Pont l’Evêque fermier, a farm-made raw-milk cheese.
Noshing In Nice: Bread and the Bagel
The bagel isn’t about to overtake socca, the time-honored chickpea pancake, as a favorite nosh in Nice, but having made inroads into the bread-life of Paris, it’s gaining attention in the capital of the Riviera. Among those paying attention are French-born Daniele Thomas Easton and her Brooklyn-bred husband.
Street food in Nice–the socca party (5/8)
While Nice is holding its Carnival the pretty Riviera town of Menton, on the other side of Monaco, is holding its Lemon Festival. I went to the Citron festivities on Friday night but I’ll write about that later this week because I want now to tell about a rather gorgeous Sunday I passed in Nice’s Carnival epicenter.
The Potato Chronicles: Memories of Brittany
After several months in Finistère, Brittany, Francesca Cannan discovers the importance of potatoes to Breton chefs in a small café on a blustery winter day, the wind roaring in off the Atlantic.
In Search of a Jewish Quarter: Rue des Rosiers and the Jewish Food...
When visiting rue des Rosiers in the Marais are travelers correct in thinking that they are actually visiting “the Jewish quarter”? Is the presence of Semitic fast food and a few Judaica shops a reflection of a vibrant local community, of successful ethnic marketing or of a combination of the two? Let’s take a look at what’s there.
McDonald’s France throws Bush under the train, jumps on the Obama Express
In the waning days of the Bush administration, McDonald’s France decided it was finally time to get on the Obamania bandwagon and start promoting...
A Summer Cheese Sandwich Recipe
Re-raise the culinary picnic bar with a summer sandwich recipe. Ingredients:
1. A traditional baguette. 2. Comté cheese aged 18 months. 3. Mustard with truffles.
Fashion Food Alert: Angelina’s Spring-Summer Collection
Don't be seen with last year's cream puff! In Paris, haute couture extends all the way to the dessert trolley. Even a venerable let-them-eat-cake institution like Angelina, founded in 1903, has to keep up with the trifle trends.