Chef Tom explains some of the more confusing French cooking terms!

 CHIC184: Old-fashioned French Food: Download

I attend a special sneak preview tasting of 18 wines led by Georges DuBoeuf

 

 RP192: Beaujolais Cru Tasting with Georges DuBoeuf: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I speak with Ronald Rens from The Bordeaux Wine Experience at www.bxwinex.com

 

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ReMARKable Palate #100: Bastille Day 2007
I take you along as I join the Bastille Day festivities with Ariane Daguin and our friends at D’Artagnan as they host a petanque festival in Bryant Park, pitting many French Restaurateurs against each other in a “Boule-a-thon”. Then we head downtown to Lower Manhattan and join Phillipe [...]

This dish is a classic French morel preparation found in Périgord and Lyon. Here we’ve turned the dish into an appetizer by placing the morels and cream sauce in puff pastry shells, which though easy to prepare will offer an impressive introduction to your feast.

It all started with Father’s Day in 2001. After years of not even a card, that year saw two wonderful presents: a trip in a glider, and the rent of a vine for a year in a Sussex vineyard — plus a bottle of wine from ‘my own’ grapes.

No one can dispute the global dominance and reputation of true Champagne from France. The classic Méthode Champenoise accounts for some of the best wines in the world.

This tale of gustatory delight begins when a young man from England, in France on business, has the pleasure of losing his “gastronomic virginity” at a restaurant in Paris.