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"This beautiful mémoire will beguile everyone who loves France and should be essential reading for anyone going there for the first time. Ethel and Sara have captured a beloved place through the rosy, whimsical, wacky, tender, and honest lens of childhood. Forget three-star dining and luxury travel; this is the France that I love and remember with pleasure. The recipes are simple and soul satisfying--from café fare and home cooking to street food and a village feast. I was enchanted with the evocative photos and charmed by every memory."
-- Alice Medrich, author of Sinfully Easy Delicious Desserts
"To read Paris to Provence is to take a beautiful and wonderfully nostalgic journey to the France of my childhood, the France of sweet dreams. If you've ever had your soul captured by the magic that exists in the lighter side of la France profonde, and if you have a sensitivity toward joyful moments created around food, family, and friends, then Paris to Provence is for you. It's a lovely book filled with classic and simple yet delicious French recipes. Somebody needs to open a restaurant here in the United States that uses this book to inspire its menu. I'd eat there at least once a week!"
-- William Widmaier, author of A Feast at the Beach
Ethel and Sara beguile you with recipes and stories from their summer childhoods as they traveled with their respective families from Paris to Provence. In markets, cafés, truck stops, bakeries, bistros, and French family homes, the girls experienced their first taste of France, re-created here through recipes, stories, and photographs.
Inspired by her memories of truck stop lunches sitting next to tables of grizzled truckers, Ethel gives us Steak au Poivre à la Sauce aux Morilles (pepper steak with morels). Sara's whimsical game of using her asparagus as soldiers' spears to guard her food from her sister is the source of her recipe for Les Soldats (soft-boiled eggs and fresh asparagus spears). Lingering over late-night dinners with grown-ups and listening in on their stories of the resistance and wild boar hunts inspired Ethel's recipe for Fraises au Vin Rouge (strawberries in red wine syrup). Rosemary and its powerful scent, first discovered by Sara while hiking with her family in the Luberon Mountains in the south of France, infuses her recipe for Cotes d'Agneau Grillées au Romarin (grilled lamb chops with rosemary). From Îles Flottantes (poached meringues in crème anglaise) to Escargots (snails in garlic butter), and from Merguez (spicy grilled lamb sausage patties) to Ratatouille (summer vegetable stew), each recipe reflects Sara and Ethel's childhood experiences in Paris and Provence. Sixty thoughtful, simple, and traditionally French dishes complemented by over one hundred luscious photographs will send you to
your kitchen, and maybe even to France.
Author Notes
Ethel Brennan is a writer and photography stylist. When she was a child, she and her family lived in Provence, where her parents owned a goat cheese farm. Although her family returned to California while she was still young, most of her childhood summers were spent traveling in France from Paris to the rustic countryside of Provence where her parents kept the farmhouse. She is now based in San Francisco and travels frequently to France with her twin boys and French husband. She is the author of Herbes de Provence , Baby Gifts and co-author of Citrus , Sun Dried Tomatoes , Goat Cheese , A Children's Kitchen Garden and most recently At the Farmers' Market with Kids . Sara Remington is an award-winning food and travel photographer based in San Francisco. She has photographed over 30 cookbooks, including The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook by Rachel Saunders, My Calabria by Rosetta Costantino, The Mozza Cookbook by Nancy Silverton, The Wild Table by Connie Green, Plum Gorgeous by Romney Steele, and Vino Argentino by Laura Catena. She was nominated for a James Beard Award for her photography in The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook and continues to travel the globe shooting for publishing companies, editorials, and advertising. Her work is inspired by the tactile and visual experiences of her childhood road trips in the United States and France.
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Despite a decade between them in age, food writer Brennan (Herbes de Provence) and food photographer Remington discovered they both shared common memories of childhoods spent in France. Here, they recollect foods and settings they remember most fondly (plus gorgeous photos and more than 50 recipes). The duo replicate a trip through the country, opening with a collection of dishes (Pate de Campagne, Rotisserie Chicken with Potatoes, etc) typically encountered on the road as they work their way through a French vacation, taking time to marvel at the Mediterranean and the beach along the way. Classic French dishes like Fig Tarts, Beignets, Escargot, Croque Madames, and Madeleine cookies break up the excursion, and all are accompanied by crisp, colorful photos begging for a frame. Still, the difficulty of trying to balance being travelogue, memoir, and classic cookbook becomes unwieldy at times; book careens back and forth, some of the writing is embarrassingly overwrought, and lengthy preambles accompany many of the recipes. Despite these flaws, Brennan and Remington do an admirable job of transporting readers into a carefree environment in which the only concern is running out of time to savor it all. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Although they grew up on opposite sides of America, Brennan and Remington discovered that both had congruent memories of summers spent with their parents traveling in France. Their specific recollections centered on the foods they had consumed on their road trips. Recipes for these dishes come together in this volume, and they form a compendium of classic regional French cookery. Simple roast chicken, beef stew, and pork loin roasted in mushroom butter reflect the uncomplicated, perfect flavors of French home cooking. A cook searching for an unusual dessert may be intrigued by goat cheesecake with a walnut crust. The authors recall brief stops during their trips to enjoy street food: beignets, roasted chestnuts, or stuffed crepes. Color photographs throughout not only illustrate the recipes but also offer scenes of the French going about their daily lives, especially young children eating or at joyful play.--Knoblauch, Mark Copyright 2010 Booklist