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The Best French Christmas Recipes

Provence, France features not only fields of lavender and at least 7 locally-produced wines, but also centuries-old Christmas cuisine traditions that connect to the Easter Season of the Catholic Church as well. A seven-course meal with 13 desserts afterward is one of these traditions...

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Pork Pate Recipe

This pate makes a nice change from typical liver pates. It is very simple to make your own pate, and this recipe produces a really tasty coarse pate that goes very well with a hot crusty French bread. The...

3 comments    french cooking french cuisine
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French Cuisine: Regional Foods and Cooking Specialties

In medieval France, both cooking and learning were nurtured within the confines of convents and monasteries. Gradually, literature and cooking emerged from the cloisters and French peasants, who had previously...

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Herbes de Provence

Herbes de Provence are a combination of herbs that are used in cooking and assoiciated with ththe cooking style of the south of France.  Each cook may create a slightly different blend but most often...

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Julia Child: A Spy Who Knew Her Eggs

La Grande Dame de Cuisine: Julia Child I am basically a self-taught cook, due to the fact that I found my mother’s cooking dull and insipid. So from a very early age, I began to putter in the kitchen. The...

3 comments    cooking eggs paris
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French Women Don't Sleep Alone

Has dating become like a 2-hour interview? Has Love turned into a Job? Are you approaching your emotions like you would an MBA? For any woman of any age who is suffering from “dating fatigue syndrome” or...

3 comments    love relationships food
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Are French cooking schools the best way to learn how to cook in a French style

There are many opportunities for attending a French Cooking School, after all French cuisine is famous the world over for the quality and flavour of food prepared following the French model and there are...

7 comments    french cuisine gourmet cooking
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French Appetizers

For the French, meals are a very important part of each day, and each meal follows a specific pattern. The first course (which we might call Appetizer in the US, or Starter in the UK) is always included in a...

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Normandy Pork with Cream and Apples recipe

This is a wonderfully rich dish I like to serve in the Autumn. It’s not quite a winter dish, nor a summer one, so Autumn feels right. Autumn is a sadly neglected time of year for recipes. There are loads...

3 comments    food fun how
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Potatoes Boulangere recipe

I love potatoes, the French love potatoes, everyone loves potatoes. One of my missions in life is to collect every single potato recipe ever written, try them and write my own variation. I know, it’s a...

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