La Vie Rustic: Cooking & Living in the French Style
Mar 2017 · Weldon Owen International
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About this ebook
The James Beard Award–winning author celebrates the traditions of French country living with evocative essays and simple, seasonal recipes.
Following an approach to daily cooking that’s rooted firmly in the French tradition, author Georgeanne Brennan crafts recipes driven by the seasons and the outdoors. Paired with lovely lifestyle photography, this inspiring cookbook weaves together her personal experience, stories, and tips about how to create a sustainable life—one that celebrates the relationship between the land and the table, and among food, family, and friends—no matter where you reside.
Inside you’ll find delectable dishes that combine ingredients from forest, field, sea, and stream in casual meals for friends and family like green garlic and new potato soup, homecured olives, chestnut and pork stew, foie gras terrine, chicken liver pâté, beef braised in red wine and bone marrow, frozen meringues and fruit cream, snail stuffed mushroom, wild mushroom soup, Crème Brûlée with Black Truffles, lavender pepper goat cheese, and more.
With lovely recipes and tips for sustainable living, La Vie Rustic allows you to live the French lifestyle in your home!
Following an approach to daily cooking that’s rooted firmly in the French tradition, author Georgeanne Brennan crafts recipes driven by the seasons and the outdoors. Paired with lovely lifestyle photography, this inspiring cookbook weaves together her personal experience, stories, and tips about how to create a sustainable life—one that celebrates the relationship between the land and the table, and among food, family, and friends—no matter where you reside.
Inside you’ll find delectable dishes that combine ingredients from forest, field, sea, and stream in casual meals for friends and family like green garlic and new potato soup, homecured olives, chestnut and pork stew, foie gras terrine, chicken liver pâté, beef braised in red wine and bone marrow, frozen meringues and fruit cream, snail stuffed mushroom, wild mushroom soup, Crème Brûlée with Black Truffles, lavender pepper goat cheese, and more.
With lovely recipes and tips for sustainable living, La Vie Rustic allows you to live the French lifestyle in your home!
About the author
Georgeanne Brennan grew up in Southern California and attended the San Diego State University, the University of Aix-Marseille in Provence, and the University of California at San Diego. After returning to California to start a teaching position, Brennan and a friend started a vegetable seed company that they promoted with a recipe-filled catalog. The pair struck success and began writing weekly columns for the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle. Brennan published Apertif: Recipes for Simple Pleasure in the French Style, which won the Julia Child Cookbook Award in the Food & Spirits Category and The Food and Flavors of Haute Provence, which won the James Beard Award in the International Category.
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