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The term "tucker" is Aussie slang, meaning food for humans. Click to enlarge slightly Several earlier posts in my blog have...

For several years, my favorite cheese has been Ossau-Iraty , produced from unpasteurized ewe’s milk in the Béarn and Pays basque region of...

This afternoon, at the charcuterie counter in a local supermarket, I was intrigued by the behavior of a young female client who wished to p...

We were confronted simultaneously, the morning, with two front-page news items about food, one of which was disastrously negative, and the o...

In my childhood recollections, candied ginger is a Proustian madeleine . [If you don't know what I mean, look up the last pair of words...

This looks like a quite ordinary fruit salad, composed of sliced apples, pears, oranges, strawberries and kiwifruit. The photo doesn...

I don't know whether it's grave from a health viewpoint, but I'm forced to admit that I've become totally addicted to my pum...

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 ...

Supermarkets of the French Intermarché group have a good reputation for their fish, based upon the fact that their Scapêche subsidiary ope...

Tiramisu is a great Italian invention. To make this tasty dessert, you need little more than a 250 gram packet of mascarpone cheese, a few...

A month ago, well after 10 o'clock in the evening on the state-owned TV channel that specializes in documentaries (France 5), a program ...

I was intrigued by an article in the French press revealing that Dutch food researchers are advancing rapidly in the domain of new foodstuff...

Over the years, I've acquired a taste for jasmin-flavored tea. I try to remember, on the rare occasions when I happen to be shopping in ...

It's funny but understandable (indeed predictable) that Unesco should choose to honor French cooking by considering it as part of the cu...

The expression "fast food" suggests that you're expected to gulp it down rapidly. A US photographer, Sally Davies , has conduc...

Emmanuelle , my daughter, has the impression that there exists a characteristic Australian cuisine . I have no idea where she got this stran...

I hesitate before employing the adjective "sacred" , in the case of bread, because its Christian overtones are overpowering. But i...

Here's the gist of a trivial personal health problem that arose almost five years ago, which I've often described. My huge ram had e...

You'll have to forgive me. My August 2009 was a harsh month, which I'm not likely to forget in the near future. To maintain minimal ...

I often mention my friends and Choranche neighbors Tineke Bot and Serge Bellier , creators of the magnificent Rochemuse floral park. Here...