From the culinary treasury of the Bordeaux come these golden gems: les canelés. Quite unremarkable from the outside, the legendary confections are filled with Bordelais tradition, culture and history. Even if the circumstances of their creation remain somewhat mysterious, the story of the canelés most likely starts in the 18th century and might go something […]
Try that! I bet you´ve never had hot chocolate made from a two thousand year old recipe! – When I came home all cold and wet the other day, caught off-guard by one of those hard to foresee (at least for me) Parisian rainshowers, that scene from Chocolat came to my mind: In the movie, […]
Leave Paris by car and it won´t take long until you´ll find yourself in the middle of the French countryside and eventually, after an hour or so, reach the small village of Giverny, home to the painter Claude Monet for well over four decades. Until his death in 1926, here he found inspiration and calm to consecrate himself […]
“Gathering the golden harvest through long summer days leaves a lasting sweetness to ripen in a man’s soul. The smell of newly carted hay can be a lasting memory even in strange cities.” Margaret Campbell Barnes When I was a child, the season of red currants would mark one of the highlights of summer. In a […]
“A cooked tomato is like a cooked oyster: ruined.” Andre Simon (1877-1970), ‘The Concise Encyclopedia of Gastronomy’ During summer, I never run out of tomatoes. I´ve had a crush on them, a coup de coeur as they say here, ever since I was a little girl. It was a hot summer day in the late […]
auf Deutsch: Tarte Tatin mit Pfirsisch und Rosmarin We arrived here in Paris about ten days ago, happy and exhausted. An old life left behind, a new one waiting for us, and a new house to begin with. To make new walls a home, it always helps to get things started in the kitchen. To […]
In contrast to the much-cited scene in Proust´s novel when the taste of a madeleine elicits the fondest childhood memories, my own first encounter with the little French tea cakes was not quite as overwhelming: When I was a kid, the supermarket version of madeleines used to help us out as an easy snack on […]
deutsche Version Rhubarb is not my favorite fruit, and I have never ever heard anyone else calling it that (plus I´ve learned it´s a vegetable anyway). In spite of that, I always buy a few of these awkward stalks as soon as they´re in season. For I feel, in some nostalgic way, committed to it: […]
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