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I’m currently working through a very old French haute cuisine book by the Troisgros brothers which I picked up in a charity shop recently. As with many old cookbooks there are no illustrations so presentation requires some guesswork. I’m wondering how people would interpret the following. From a...

Hello everyone! After 7 months of research and development for the perfect choux pastry formula, I would like to present to you, dear friends, the fruits of our labor. Enjoy! Department of Research & Development The data contained herein is the intellectual property of the Joey Prats School...

There is already an excellent wiki entry on how to cut up a whole chicken. This describes the most popular American system. However, for some purposes the French system is preferable. The present article describes the latter system in brief, explaining only the differences from the American...

Bordeaux, (Bor-DOH), is one of the world's best wines. But Bordeaux's geography, nomenclature, grape varieties, and outdated classification system is confusing enough to drive you to drink. Hmmmm. Maybe that's the plan? Let's see if we can make this wonderful wine more mentally palatable...

In the James Bond movie "Goldeneye", 007 and the villainess are playfully racing down a scenic mountain roadway. Bond's passenger is a young female coworker sent by M to evaluate him. Having no stomach for his perilous antics she orders him to stop his Aston Martin immediately. Bond complies...

The fourth Thursday of November will always be Thanksgiving but if you're an oenophile, it's the third Thursday that you look forward to. That's when Beaujolais Nouveau, the vinicultural herald of the holiday season, is released. Let's take a tour of Beaujolais before returning to this...

The term "Burgundy", in the minds of the American masses, has come to denote generic red wine. Mediocre restaurants often use the term to signify their mundane house red. But this is analogous to using the term "Coke" to designate all cola drinks. Yet Coke tastes different than Pepsi, which...

Perhaps the oldest known cheese in the world, scholars speculate that Roquefort was known even to the ancient Romans. This cheese, made in the desolate southern French town of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, was the first cheese in France to be legally protected from fraudulent look-alikes. While...

The Loire River rises in the Massif Central from where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. At some 629 miles long, it is the longest river in France. It flows first to the north, and then to the west. Soft plains spread around the Loire's giant curve in a region justly called the Garden of France...

It never ceases to amaze me that supposedly new and exciting recipes can be so very old in origin. Take, for example, the recent craze for fried mozzarella sticks. 10 years ago they were nowhere to be found. Now suddenly almost every Italian-American restaurant offers them, and they're available...

For those of you who love goat cheese, this one is not to be missed! Crottin de Chavignol is a classic when it comes to goat cheeses. (You can always judge the popularity of a cheese by the number of imitations, and Crottin de Chavignol has many look- alikes. In all fairness, there are some...