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Coquilles, Calva, and Crème: Exploring France's Culinary Heritage: A Love Affair with Real French Food

by Joanne Dryansky, Gerry Y. Dryansky
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Culinary tour of France with legendary anecdotes.

If you're drawn to a blend of history, culture, and gastronomy wrapped in personal tales, this book might be your next favorite read. Gerry Y. Dryansky offers a sensory voyage through France's culinary landscape, enriched with exclusive encounters and recipes underscoring the essence of authentic French cuisine. This isn't just a collection of dishes; it's a heartfelt invitation to experience food as a bridge to France's soul.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Coquilles, Calva, and Crème: Exploring France's Culinary Heritage: A Love Affair with Real French Food

by Joanne Dryansky, Gerry Y. Dryansky
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ISBN: 9781605983295
Authors: Joanne Dryansky, Gerry Y. Dryansky
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Date of Publication: 2012-06-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Food & Drink, Travel, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Memoir, Cooking, Biography, Food, Culinary, Adventure, History, Travelogue
Goodreads rating: 3.29
(rated by 34 readers)

Description

A culinary memoir that brings to life some of the most fascinating, glamorous food years in France and reveals gastronomical treasures from gifted artisans of the French countryside.Dryansky’s stories are the stuff of legend—evenings with Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent, historic wine auctions and memorable banquets—but Coquilles, Calva, and Créme is more than memories. These same memories prompt a journey across modern-day France, through kitchens, farms, and vineyards, offering a savory experience that can be duplicated by the reader afterward with numerous recipes, most of which have never before been recorded.In the world of today’s professional cooking, publicity-chasing and performance has overshadowed the importance of dining and the food itself. Too often the modern restaurant is a mixture of bizarre novelty and paradoxical clichés. Truly great dining happens when you’re fully engaged in the moment, acknowledging the range of associations that emerge, as Proust wrote, from sensory experiences. From small cafés in Paris to Normandy, Alsace, the Basque country, and beyond, Dryansky takes us on a sweeping sensory journey, with a voice as thoughtful as Kingsolver, as entertaining as Bourdain, and as cogent and critical as Pollan.
 

Culinary tour of France with legendary anecdotes.

If you're drawn to a blend of history, culture, and gastronomy wrapped in personal tales, this book might be your next favorite read. Gerry Y. Dryansky offers a sensory voyage through France's culinary landscape, enriched with exclusive encounters and recipes underscoring the essence of authentic French cuisine. This isn't just a collection of dishes; it's a heartfelt invitation to experience food as a bridge to France's soul.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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