Chez Nous: Home Cooking from the South of France - Hardcover

The author of A Passion for Potatoes, an expert cooking teacher, shows American cooks how to make 200 delicious dishes from Provence, her native region of France, known the world over for its excellent food.

Reading about Marshall's summers in Provence, with the abundance of fresh produce at her doorstep, the olive oil produced in her town of Nyons, the fish that define bouillabaisse, and the lamb unlike any other?not to mention the truffle-hunting dog next door?will make any cook envious. Marshall, author of A Passion for Potatoes (LJ 2/15/92), runs a cooking school in New York City and spends some of her summers in France teaching there as well. The recipes she includes here are for "good country food," the favorite dishes she cooks everyday (usually for guests as well as family); in addition to wonderful Provencal classics, there are recipes inspired by other French cooks, from friends and neighbors to her butcher's wife. But even when Marshall describes in detail the dish she makes in France, she gives the "New York version" if it differs. A warm and delightful book and a good companion to Richard Olney's account of another Provencal cook, Lulu's Provencal Table (LJ 4/1/94). Highly recommended. [HomeStyle Bks. main selection.]
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