No Partridges, Just Thirteen Desserts: French Christmas Culinary Traditions
I love culinary traditions … and usually I don’t mind cooking all the foods associated with upholding those traditions. Like …
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Idylls of Cuisine, #90
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
French Bread of a Different Stripe
Another Last Word on French Cuisine and UNESCO’s “Intangible Cultural Heritage” Program
The recent inscribing of ”intangible cultural heritage” status to “the French gastronomic meal” by UNESCO brought both cheers and jeers …
French Cuisine, an Exposition on Medieval Food Not to be Missed
Click on the image to “attend” a gorgeous exposition of the history of medieval French cuisine: Be sure to click …
Idylls of Cuisine, #89
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
The French Gastronomic Meal, UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
French Gastronomic Meal The Committee 1. Takes note that France has nominated the gastronomic meal of the French for inscription …
C’est Pas Foie Gras, Or, Liver Follies and Foibles
I have a confession to make: I don’t really like liver. For one thing, the gamey taste lingers on the …
Foie Gras and Ties of Tradition in France
Enchanting photos of grey geese and sleek ducks, truffle-hunting dogs and pigs — all signs of autumn in the French …
Idylls of Cuisine, #88
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
