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The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France
In the eighteenth-century French household, the servant cook held a special place of importance, providing daily meals and managing the kitchen and its finances. In this scrupulously researched and witty history, Sean Takats examines the lives of these cooks as they sought to improve their position in society and reinvent themselves as expert, skilled professionals. Much has been written about the cuisine of the period, but Takats takes readers down into the kitchen and introduces them to the men and women behind the food. It is only in that way, Takats argues, that we can fully recover the scientific and cultural significance of the meals they created, and, more important, the contributions of ordinary workers to eighteenth-century intellectual life. He shows how cooks, along with decorators, architects, and fashion merchants, drove France's consumer revolution, and how cooks' knowledge about a healthy diet and the medicinal properties of food advanced their professional status by capitalizing on the Enlightenment's new concern for bodily and material happiness. The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France explores a unique intersection of cultural history, labor history, and the history of science and medicine. Relying on an unprecedented range of sources, from printed cookbooks and medical texts to building plans and commercial advertisements, Takats reconstructs the evolving role of the cook in Enlightenment France. Academics and students alike will enjoy this fascinating study of the invention of the professional chef, of how ordinary workers influenced emerging trends of scientific knowledge, culture-creation, and taste in eighteenth-century France.
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Finding the ingredients of culture in recipes
Each year, as Hanukkah approaches, cooks across the country haul out their latke-spattered editions of Joan Nathan's cookbooks. What books did you read as background for this project? I read commentaries by Rashi, a philosopher and rabbi in the Middle Ages - I'd go through the Bible and look at food, then see what he had to say.
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Twist and shout, Joan
[...] the experienced recipe writer adapts the ingredients and directions for a modern cook, testing the food herself. Nathan the challah maker gathers enough yeast, eggs, vegetable oil, salt, sugar, anise seed and a small jar of roasted sesame seeds from a Chinese market to make half the recipe.
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Dinner chez moi : 50 French secrets to joyful eating and entertaining
When Elizabeth Bard, a New Yorker raised on Twizzlers and instant mac and cheese, fell for a handsome Frenchman and moved to Paris, she discovered a whole new world of culinary delights. First in Paris, then in a tiny village in Provence, Elizabeth explored the markets, incorporating new ingredients and rituals into her everyday meals and routines. After 15 years of cooking in her own French kitchen, making French friends--and observing her slim and elegant French mother-in-law--Elizabeth has gathered a treasure trove of information that has radically changed her own eating habits for the better. She realized that what most Americans call \"dieting\"--smaller portions, no snacking, a preference for seasonal fruits and vegetables, and limited sugar--the French simply call \"eating.\" And they do it with pleasure, gusto, and flair. With wit, sound advice, and easy-to-follow recipes, Bard lets her readers in on a range of delightful--and useful--French secrets to eating and living well, including hunger as the new foreplay, the top five essential French cooking tools and 15 minute meals popular throughout France, and the concept of benevolent dictatorship: why French kids eat veggies, and how to get yours to eat them, too. Whether you're ready for a complete kitchen transformation or simply looking for dinner party inspiration, Dinner Chez Moi is a fun, practical, and charming how-to guide that will add a dash of joie de vivre to your kitchen--and your life!.
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taste of place
How and why do we think about food, taste it, and cook it? While much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to wine, in this vibrant, personal book, Amy Trubek, a pioneering voice in the new culinary revolution, expands the concept of terroir beyond wine and into cuisine and culture more broadly. Bringing together lively stories of people farming, cooking, and eating, she focuses on a series of examples ranging from shagbark hickory nuts in Wisconsin and maple syrup in Vermont to wines from northern California. She explains how the complex concepts of terroir and goût de terroir are instrumental to France's food and wine culture and then explores the multifaceted connections between taste and place in both cuisine and agriculture in the United States. How can we reclaim the taste of place, and what can it mean for us in a country where, on average, any food has traveled at least fifteen hundred miles from farm to table? Written for anyone interested in food, this book shows how the taste of place matters now, and how it can mediate between our local desires and our global reality to define and challenge American food practices.
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The French ingredient : a memoir : making a life in Paris one lesson at a time
\"In this inspiring, poignant, and delicious memoir, the founder of France's largest nonprofessional culinary institute traces her journey from the American Midwest to Paris, and shares how, through painstaking work, she triumphed over French elitism. When Jane Bertch was eighteen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high school French, Jane found her halting attempts greeted with withering condescension by every waiter and shopkeeper she encountered. At the end of the trip she vowed she would never return. Yet a decade later she found herself back in Paris, transferred there by an American bank. She became fluent in the language, gradually earning the respect of her French colleagues as she excelled in her new position. But she had a different dream: To start a cooking school for foreigners like her, tourists who wanted to take a few classes in French cuisine in a friendly setting then bring their new skills to their kitchens back home. Predictably, Jane faced nay-saying Frenchmen--how dare an American banker start a cooking school in Paris?--real estate nightmares, and a long struggle to find and attract clients. Thanks to Jane's perseverance, La Cuisine Paris opened in 2009. The years since have been filled with triumphs and heartbreaks. Several times the school almost closed, thanks to the pandemic and terrorist attacks that kept tourists away. Now the school is thriving, welcoming international visitors to come in and knead dough, whisk bechamel, whip meringue, and learn the care, precision, patience, and beauty involved in French cooking. The French Ingredient is the story of a young female entrepreneur building a life in a city and culture she grew to love. As she built La Cuisine, Jane mastered the intricacies of French flirtation and bureaucracy, their intense reliance on relationships, and their hostility to outsiders. Having finally made peace with the city she swore never to revisit, she shares all she has learned. Her memoir is a love letter to France, and a master class in Parisian cooking-and living\"-- Provided by publisher.
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OFF DUTY --- Cooking & Eating -- Mega Meal: Classic Duck Confit --- A writer lets go of a long-held aversion to embrace a French favorite -- and her inner Gascogny farmwife
About 1 Hour Total Time: minimum 1 Week Yields: 8 main courses or 24 appetizer portions 5 pounds duck legs (Moulard, Muscovy or Pekin) 3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon coarse Kosher salt 1 1/2 tablespoons coarsely chopped shallots 1 teaspoon coarsely chopped fresh garlic, plus one whole head of garlic, halved crosswise 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley 2 teaspoons black peppercorns, lightly crushed 1 bay leaf, crumbled 1 sprig fresh thyme, chopped Butcher's lard (optional) 6 cups rendered duck fat 2 whole cloves WHAT TO DO: 1. Toss duck with salt, shallots, chopped garlic, parsley, peppercorns, bay leaf and thyme.
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