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Food and Wine of France: Eating and Drinking from Champagne to Provence
Food and Wine of France: Eating and Drinking from Champagne to Provence | Edward Behr
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A beautiful and deeply researched investigation into French cuisine, from the founding editor of "The Art of Eating" and author of "50 Foods." In THE FOOD AND WINE OF FRANCE, the influential food writer Edward Behr investigates French cuisine and what it means, in encounters from Champagne to Provence. He tells the stories of French artisans and chefs who continue to work at the highest level. Many people in and out of France have noted for a long time the slow retreat of French cuisine, concerned that it is losing its important place in the country's culture and in the world culture of food. And yet, as Behr writes, good French food remains very, very delicious. No cuisine is better. The sensuousness is overt. French cooking is generous, both obvious and subtle, simple and complex, rustic and utterly refined. A lot of recent inventive food by comparison is wildly abstract and austere. In the tradition of great food writers, Edward Behr seeks out the best of French food and wine. He shows not only that it is as relevant as ever, but he also challenges us to see that it might become the world's next cutting edge cuisine. France remains the greatest country for bread, cheese, and wine, and its culinary techniques are the foundation of the training of nearly every serious Western cook and some beyond. Behr talks with chefs and goes to see top artisanal producers in order to understand what "the best" means for them, the nature of traditional methods, how to enjoy the foods, and what the optimal pairings are. As he searches for the very best in French food and wine, he introduces a host of important, memorable people. THE FOOD AND WINE OF FRANCE is a remarkable journey of discovery. It is also an investigation into why classical French food is so extraordinarily delicious--and why it will endure."
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Andrea4
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I'm supposed to go to a Wine & Cheese event tonight but ...but...can I stay here?
I want to see certain people but it's cold and I have to put in "real people clothes."
Beatrix says screw the cold, curl up! #catsoflitsy

GondorGirl I'm with Beatrix. 7y
Jabberwocky Ugh same boat! It's -12 today and I'm working an 8h shift and then we have a concert tonight but... bed 7y
Andrea4 @GondorGirl @Jaberwocky thanks guys- did go out and got bombarded at the end by an old prof asking if I was pregnant/when I will be/should he talk to my hubby about/shouldn't wait too long & told me at the same time to go back to my PhD and just get it over with real quick. I'm not sure if he saw those things happening at the same time? @llwheeler 7y
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BethFishReads
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Heeeelllllooooo my friends! I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow. Busy day. Cheers to you. 🍷🍷 and I'll be tweeting about books I'm looking forward to reading in a little while, if you care to see.

LauraBeth This looks nice! 😀 8y
RealLifeReading Lovely! 8y
BethFishReads @LauraBeth @BellaBookNook @RealLifeReading thanks! I'm so crazy busy with work right now. I miss @Litsy 8y
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BethFishReads
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I can't remember who was wondering today about fellow polygamous readers. But here is a stack of books I'm in the middle of or have finished and have not yet written about. Hi, my pretend name is Beth Fish Reads and I might have a problem.

LauraBeth 😹😹😹 8y
DebinHawaii Hah! Admitting it is the first step! 😀 8y
LitHousewife I'm seeing a new side of you! I had no idea how saucy you were. 😉 8y
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rachelm I always read at least three books at a time. One audiobook, one before bed book (usually a biggie, right now Middlemarch) and one book to go-- my purse book/general reading book. I refuse to believe this is a problem! 8y
[DELETED] 2232195534 😮😮😮 We never knew!!! Ha!! 8y
Mayread Think of it as literary polyamory. And it was @Yossarian who brought it up! 8y
BethFishReads @LauraBeth @DebinHawaii @kaysreadinglife it's a disease. But I'm okay with it 8y
BethFishReads @LitHousewife I try to rein it in online 8y
BethFishReads @rachelm I used to have only 3 going. *thinks fondly of those days (just last year)* 8y
BethFishReads @Skiles ahhh. And thanks for the @Yossarian reminder 8y
BookishMarginalia I always have several going at the same time -- no rhyme or reason to the choices, either 🤓 8y
TeR Ya 8y
Yossarian Good start. But your piles are too neat. 8y
Lizpixie 🙋🏼 This is me too, currently I have a book next to the bed, an audiobook I listen to at night, the Vera novel I'm halfway through, plus I'm rereading Harry Potter again when I get bored with the others. At least I know I'm not alone. 8y
readinginthedark Yep, I have about 30-something going right now. I feel no shame about it! 😊 8y
audiothing I shipped my books from UK to Channel Islands to New Zealand, then to Australia. They came to an ignominious end in the humidity of a non climate controlled Queensland storage unit. 8y
BethFishReads @audiothing arghhhh. Where in the Channel Islands? I lived in Guernsey many years ago. 8y
audiothing Good heavens! St. Helier, Jersey. Around 1991 I worked at the General Hospital for a few years. I recall flying over to Guernsey in that awful seaplane. 8y
BethFishReads @audiothing I lived on the southern tip in 1984 doing my doctoral research. Blood genetics so I was up at hospital quite a bit. Then worked at Natural History Museum for a few months before back to states 8y
audiothing Genetics on the C.I. Would be interesting! 8y
BethFishReads @audiothing it was. I remember that plane. Or the mail ferry 8y
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SFPublicLibrary
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Love this cover art.

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