Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780618875535)

When Julia Child told Dorie Greenspan, "You write recipes just the way I do," she paid her the ultimate compliment. Julia's praise was echoed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which referred to Dorie's "wonderfully encouraging voice" and "the sense of a real person who is there to help should you stumble." Now in a big, personal, and personable book, Dorie captures all the excitement of French home cooking, sharing disarmingly simple dishes she has gathered over years of living in France.
Around My French Table includes many superb renditions of the great classics: a glorious cheese-domed onion soup, a spoon-tender beef daube, and the "top-secret" chocolate mousse recipe that every good Parisian cook knows--but won't reveal. Hundreds of other recipes are remarkably easy: a cheese and olive quick bread, a three-star chef's Basque potato tortilla made with a surprise ingredient (potato chips), and an utterly satisfying roast chicken for "lazy people." Packed with lively stories, memories, and insider tips on French culinary customs, Around My French Table will make cooks fall in love with France all over again, or for the first time.


Author: Dorie Greenspan
ISBN-10: 0618875530
ISBN-13: 9780618875535
Publisher: Harvest Publications
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2010
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.76lbs
Size: 11.26h x 8.78w x 1.48d
Award: Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (USA Only) - Winner
Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - Finalist
Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2010 pg. 62
Publishers Weekly 11/15/2010
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/08/2010 pg. 30

About the Author

Inducted into the Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America, DORIE GREENSPAN is the author of the James Beard Award-winning Baking: From My Home to Yours. She worked with Jean-Georges Vongerichten in his first U.S. kitchen and was Elle magazine's first food writer, recipe tester, and translator. With Pierre Hermé, Dorie wrote Desserts by Pierre Hermé, winner of an IACP Cookbook of the Year Award, and Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Hermé, winner of the Gourmand prize for best cookbook in the English language. She is a contributing editor for Parade, a longtime special correspondent for Bon Appétit, and frequent guest on NPR.