Bring Back Le Bricolin!
Long before kale got its cult following in France, Brittany had le bricolin. Also called cow or rabbit cabbage (chou à vache, chou à lapin) because it was mostly grown to fee [...]
Sautéed Sea Beets (Wild Spinach)
On a gray low-light winter day, the only thing that stood out on my regular walk were the deep green tufts of sea beets that cluster around a certain curve of the coast. The [...]
Caramelized Fennel and Carrot Soup
Fennel is a vegetable I find hard to describe to those not familiar with it. The term ‘anise-flavored’ is often used, but I think that sounds like more of a turn-off to most [...]
Butternut Squash Spoonbread
This is one of those recipes that defied all my hopes and expectations—mainly because I defied just about everything I read about how to make it online. While doodling around [...]
Basic French Potage
If there is one French recipe that everyone in the whole wide world should learn to make, it is potage, the blended vegetable soup that was once the start to every supper in [...]
Roasted Carrots with Toasted Cumin and Coriander
I’m loving the enduring trend of whole (or hardly cut) roasted vegetables. Whole roasted cauliflower has become a weekly standard through the cooler months, and I moved on to [...]
Persian Cucumber Soup with Mint
I have been making this soup for exactly twenty years. Exactly. How do I know this? Because I made my first version for it during the 1998 World Cup (when France also won). I [...]
Elodie’s (Easy) Tian
The tians (pronounced tee-ahn) I’ve tasted in France have all been simple, meltingly tender swirls, rows, or stacks of summer vegetables cooked with some garlic, a few herbs [...]
Preserved Lemons
Most preserved lemon recipes call for cutting the lemons almost into quarters, stuffing the centers with salt, then squeezing the lemons into jars. I made them this way for m [...]