Coquilles, Calva, & Crème
Exploring France's Culinary Heritage: A Love Affair with French Food
- 400 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Coquilles, Calva, & Crème
Exploring France's Culinary Heritage: A Love Affair with French Food
About This Book
Two Americans in Paris serve up an “appetizing, evocative, eccentric paean to Gallic gastronomy” ( The Wall Street Journal ).
This culinary memoir brings to life some of the most fascinating, glamorous food years in France and reveals gastronomical treasures from gifted artisans of the French countryside. Dryansky’s stories are the stuff of legend—evenings with Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, historic wine auctions and memorable banquets—but Coquilles, Calva, and Crème is more than memories. These same memories prompt a journey across modern-day France, through kitchens, farms, and vineyards, offering a savory experience that can be duplicated by the reader afterward with numerous recipes, most of which have never before been recorded. In the world of today’s professional cooking, publicity-chasing and performance has overshadowed the importance of dining and the food itself. Too often the modern restaurant is a mixture of bizarre novelty and paradoxical clichés. Truly great dining happens when you’re fully engaged in the moment, acknowledging the range of associations that emerge, as Proust wrote, from sensory experiences. From small cafés in Paris to Normandy, Alsace, the Basque country, and beyond, Dryansky takes us on a sweeping sensory journey, with a voice as thoughtful as Kingsolver, as entertaining as Bourdain, and as cogent and critical as Pollan.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- FOREWORD
- 1: SÉBASTIEN’S FEAST
- 2: J’ACCUSE
- 3: WHERE WE’RE COMING FROM
- 4: PARIS ON AN EXPENSE ACCOUNT
- 5: A DETOUR AMONG THE VINES
- 6: SIMPLY AS GOOD AS IT GETS
- 7: CHIC TO CHIC
- 8: CAME THE REVOLUTION?
- 9: PARIS THE OMNIVOROUS
- 10: NORMANDY
- 11: LYON
- 12: THE BASQUE COUNTRY
- 13: THE SOUTHWEST TRINITY
- 14: ALSACE
- 15: THE FATTED STEER OF BAZAS
- 16: LE MASSIF CENTRAL
- 17: SAINTE-TERRE, WORLD CAPITAL
- 18: NICE AND MARSEILLE
- 19: L’INVITATION AU VOYAGE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Copyright Page