Cris de Paris: The Street Criers of Paris in Bygone Days
Mushrooms abound in the markets of France in October and early November. And since I found stalls bursting with all …
Category Archives: Mushrooms
Scenes from La France Profonde
FOOD FOR ART’S SAKE: Eating with the Impressionists
In celebrating art, the Western world owes a tremendous debt to France. Once a mecca for Impressionist artists and others, France nurtured both their souls and their bellies. And in France, art goes back a long way, back to the time of Cro-Magnon man who left his indelible marks on the dim damp walls of the caves of Lascaux in the Dordogne area of southwestern France.
Scenes from La France Profonde
[Unless otherwise noted, all photos by C. Bertelsen]
The [Culinary] Heroes of France
They’re not in the Panthéon in Paris, where France entombs her heroes, but from all the adulation they receive, you’d …
From Velouté to Casserole: A Question of Green Beans, Amandine, and Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup
I didn’t mean to write about Campbell’s soup. You see, I started out pondering a super French soup recipe, Velouté …
Cooking with Mushrooms: Chicken and Walnuts and Baby Bellas, Oh My!
I went wild over the cheap chicken thighs at my local Kroger, dumping package after package into my grocery cart. …
Idylls of Cuisine, #80
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Idylls of Cuisine, #79
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: Patience Gray
HONEY FROM A WEED: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia, by Patience Gary (Harper & Row, …
