Category: Burgundy

  • Dear Friends of French Affaires! I am just back from a 4-week stay in France. September is a great month to be there. Good weather, fewer crowds, and of course, it’s France! The language immersion trip of Aix-en-Provence is always a popular choice. I decided to try a new venue and a different model, for…

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  • It’s easy to think that France has always been one big ‘happy hexagon’ (referring to its current six-sided geographical shape), a uniform cultural entity that was and always has been FRANCE. But this is far from the case. France’s official borders have expanded and contracted over the centuries like an accordian, and various French regions…

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  • This past week, I had the privilege of speaking with British-American food writer and cooking instructor Anne Willan. Anne is one of the world’s foremost authorities on French cooking and has written more than 30 books and cookbooks. She founded La Varenne Cooking School in Paris in 1975, one of the first professional cooking schools…

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  • It’s fall in France and the U.S. and for me, it’s a return to winter cooking. I love gratins—vegetables such as potatoes layered with cheese and cream or milk—and hearty plats (main dishes) cooked with wine, mushrooms and onions. Sweaters and fires in the fireplace complete the picture. A quintessential French winter dish of course…

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