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In my house at Gamone, I’ve just assembled and installed two alarm panels like this: The alarm on the left is a smoke detector, whi...

Over the last few months, my son François Skyvington has been examining the question of high-quality hamburgers (as opposed to the dull st...

My gastronomical enthusiasm for supermarket minced steak (for my standard chile con carne dish) was dampened by the recent horse-meat affai...

In the middle of a hot summer, life's not easy for pumpkins, which crave for water. But they survive, and perk up—as sprightly as ...

In France, in a butcher's shop or in the meat section of a supermarket, when you buy a piece of pork to be roasted, you generally get a ...

Do you mean to say that you use a pair of pliers when you're preparing a meal in the kitchen? Yes, they're ideal for removing ...

The product known in French as fleur de sel is a prestigious gastronomical salt composed of white crystals formed by the evaporating effect...

I started making this cake long ago at Gamone, and I'm still at it, particularly when the weather starts to cool down and I like to be r...

Last Saturday, my daughter took me to a wonderful restaurant in Tain-l'Hermitage, Le Quai , on the banks of the Rhône. That was the view...

This recipe for cooking a fish is extremely simple, but you need to have a garden with herbs. The fish in question happens to be a common se...

I've already mentioned the French tart known as a quiche lorraine [ display ] . Well, I've just invented this variation on the quic...

I would imagine that many individuals, keen on cooking, have a favorite recipe book. When I settled down at Choranche in 1994, I used to tal...

My daughter used to refer to this dish as "steak and Sydney pie" . If I tell you that I'm never again likely to cook another s...

I consider this dish as a simple variation on the theme of meat pies, since it's inspired remotely by my adolescent gastronomical memori...

This everyday French delicacy is known here as quiche lorraine , and this name is transposed into English (I'm told) as egg and bacon qu...

This so-called peasant pie is a delicacy from the wooded Jura region of eastern France. The basic ingredient is the celebrated sausage from...