June 29, 2011
[Edible Idiom] Changer de crémerie
Crémerie photographed in Marseille by Boris Drenec.
This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Browse the list of idioms featured so far.
This week's expression is, "Changer de crémerie."
Literally translated as, "changing creameries," it means taking your business elsewhere when you're unhappy with the current (and possibly long-standing) arrangement.
Example: "Certains généralistes se sentent obligés de d...
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June 21, 2011
Gontran Cherrier's Rye and Red Miso Bread
My biggest heartache as a temporarily nomadic cook, traveling from kitchen to kitchen while my own is being renovated, is that I've had to put my bread baking aspirations on hiatus.
I'd been baking a weekly loaf of pain au levain since I first got my sourdough starter two years ago, so not being able to do so leaves a gaping hole in my routine.
And while my starter Philémon marks the days on the wall inside the fridge (poor thing), I've had t...
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June 16, 2011
Chocolate Coconut Muffins
{Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free}
In preparation for a recent article in ELLE à table, the French cooking magazine in which I write a column, I did some research on the range of ingredients that are derived from the coconut palm.
Beyond the pulp of the fruit (the white flesh that is consumed fresh or dried), its water (the clear liquid inside) and its milk (the liquid you get from pressing or steeping the pulp), I was especially interested in coconut...
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June 14, 2011
Vegetable Tasting Dinner @ Bob's Kitchen
I am excited to announce that I will be co-hosting a vegetable tasting dinner in Paris on June 25th and 26th with my friend Braden, co-owner and brilliant chef at the underground restaurant Hidden Kitchen where I've staged a few times. The dinner will be held at Bob's Kitchen in the 3rd arrondissement, the wonderful vegetarian lunch restaurant where I worked in April.
Braden and I will be cooking a ten-course tasting menu that will focus on th...
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June 7, 2011
Olive Oil and Black Pepper Tartine
"La découverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la découverte d'une étoile."
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star*: this aphorism is the ninth of twenty that Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin lists as a prologue** to his book, The Physiology of Taste.
It is not quite as famous as aphorism number four ("Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es," usually tran...
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June 1, 2011
June 2011 Desktop Calendar
At the beginning of every month, I am offering C&Z readers a new wallpaper to apply on the desktop of your computer, with a food-related picture and a calendar of the current month.
Our calendar for June is a picture of fresh garlic (ail nouveau), which you can find on market stalls in France starting in early June.
For the longest time I never really stopped to think about the fact that the large majority of garlic heads the cook uses are dr...
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