Coquilles, Calva, & Crème
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Coquilles, Calva, & Crème

Exploring France's Culinary Heritage: A Love Affair with French Food

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Coquilles, Calva, & Crème

Exploring France's Culinary Heritage: A Love Affair with French Food

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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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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2012
ISBN
9781453249260
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Culinary Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. FOREWORD
  5. 1: SÉBASTIEN’S FEAST
  6. 2: J’ACCUSE
  7. 3: WHERE WE’RE COMING FROM
  8. 4: PARIS ON AN EXPENSE ACCOUNT
  9. 5: A DETOUR AMONG THE VINES
  10. 6: SIMPLY AS GOOD AS IT GETS
  11. 7: CHIC TO CHIC
  12. 8: CAME THE REVOLUTION?
  13. 9: PARIS THE OMNIVOROUS
  14. 10: NORMANDY
  15. 11: LYON
  16. 12: THE BASQUE COUNTRY
  17. 13: THE SOUTHWEST TRINITY
  18. 14: ALSACE
  19. 15: THE FATTED STEER OF BAZAS
  20. 16: LE MASSIF CENTRAL
  21. 17: SAINTE-TERRE, WORLD CAPITAL
  22. 18: NICE AND MARSEILLE
  23. 19: L’INVITATION AU VOYAGE
  24. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  25. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  26. Copyright Page