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Cooking in Provence with chef Philippe Gion – Teaching The best of Provencal recipes since 1996

 

More than just recipes and techniques, this adventure introduces you to the best of Provencal way of life – a life based around friends, the kitchen, wonderful food prepared from the freshest local ingredients, good wines and amazing liquors, warm nights and fun

By the end of the week you will have learned a whole new way of living and eating. You will go home with your own cookbook, personalized with photographs of you and your friends, cooking and travelling with Philippe. But best of all, you will go home with wonderful memories of a great time in the warm sun of Provence or of la Côte d’Azur.

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Pate de Campagne

a recipe by Anthony Bourdain

You’ve made meat loaf, right? You’ve eaten cold meat loaf, yes? Then you’re halfway to being an ass-kicking, name-taking charcutier. “Ooooh…pâté, I don’t know.” Please. Campagne means “country” in French — which means even your country-ass can make it.

Learning to Cook, With Time Left to See Paris

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/dining/22fran.html?ref=dining

“SERIOUS cooks know they can go off to France and take immersion courses, but until recently, I hadn’t realized that it is possible to take quickie cooking classes: a few hours, a half day or a day.

Recipe: Rillettes of Bluefish –NYT

Adapted from Restaurant Rech, Paris

 Interestingly, this recipe has some heat, but it is from pepper, wasabi, and mustard, not chilies.

 Time: 30 minutes

1 pound bluefish fillets

1/3 cup white vinegar

1 1/3 cups dry white wine

2 tablespoons grainy mustard

Juice of 1/2 lemon

2 tablespoons soft unsalted butter

2 tablespoons minced chives

2 teaspoons minced cilantro leaves

Salt and freshly ground white pepper

Scant teaspoon wasabi paste

2 tablespoons flying fish roe (tobiko), optional

Toasted slices of baguette.

1. Place fish in a sauté pan or a skillet. Pour vinegar and wine over, bring to a simmer and remove from heat. Allow to cool to room temperature.

2. When fish is cooled, remove to a cutting board and peel off skin. Discard liquid. Place fish in a bowl, breaking it up with a fork. Add mustard, lemon juice and butter and mix. Add chives, cilantro and salt and pepper. Fold in wasabi.

3. To serve, pile rillettes in a serving dish and, if desired, spread tobiko over the top. Or fashion mounds on plates. Garnish with toast. Serve as an hors d’oeuvre or a first course.

Yield: 4 to 8 servings.

Le casse-croûte

Bienvenue sur le casse-croûte home of the art of sandwiches and snacks.

My Dad, the French chef

From the Times (London): About a cooking course in Provence led by a Michelin-starred chef.

My Dad, the French chef

Polan debunked!

Should we buy Michael Pollan’s nutritional Darwinism? – By Daniel Engber – Slate Magazine

Gallettes filed with shrimp and scallops — LA Times

(free registration required)

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-creperec4feb07,1,7171199.story?coll=la-headlines-food  (galette recipe)

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-nucreperec1feb07,1,3746156.story?coll=la-headlines-food  (filing recipe)

Pollan debunked!

Should we buy Michael Pollan’s nutritional Darwinism? – By Daniel Engber – Slate Magazine

Paris bistro: now no anglophones will be able to get in

Bistronomy – New York Times