The Best Vinaigrette
French vinaigrette. It’s a liquid poem you pour over freshly harvested greens, which in turn becomes the best dish you ever ate. Like any French person, I eat a salad after every meal. Sometimes a salad IS my meal. Whether tender or robust, salad greens make a great base for a freshly poached egg; […]
Leek and Potato Soup
As comfy as a pair of worn jeans, leek and potato soup is just as delicious. Particularly today, as the extreme freezing temperatures demand making and eating soup! The typical leek and potato soup most Americans know is Vichyssoise, that cold and creamy version created – as legend has it – at the Ritz Carlton in […]
Miami and Seattle Coming Up
Here’s a little reminder about French happiness coming your way! I’ll be giving you my French culinary tips and secrets in Miami January 16-18 at the amazing Gastronomicom cooking school, and in Seattle February 8-10 in a beautiful Mercer Island kitchen. There are a few spots available so step right up cookingclasses@onruetatin.com to register. Three days! Authentic French […]
Tuerie
There is something so very special about being an expatriate even though, occasionally, I long for the familiarity of the country where I was born. But just think: here, I am and always will be “the American.” Which gives me the advantage of the renegade. This creates advantages, one of which is that I can […]
A Great Christmas Gift – Cooking French in Miami, the Pacific Northwest, and More
For those of you who want to create fabulous French meals, hang on! I’m coming to the U.S. to teach you! I’ll be in four different and amazing U.S. locations this year, starting with Miami in January, and Seattle in February. Three classes, three days, three gorgeous meals, and you walk away with amazing recipes, new […]
Food, Memory, Nostalgia
I wrote this piece, which was originally published on Signature , in response to a question about parallels that can be drawn between passing down recipes from generation to generation and passing down stories from generation to generation. I thought you’d enjoy reading it here. I’m including a picture of my own grandmother, with my grandfather, […]
In a French Kitchen, Polish-Style
In a French Kitchen was released in Poland last week (by Wydawnictwo Literackie), and I was in Warsaw over the weekend to promote it. It was an incredible experience and here is why: I discovered a big group of journalists who are so professional, so prepared, so sincerely involved in their work, and so absolutely […]
In the Wall Street Journal!
By ALEXANDER LOBRANO March 21, 2016 5:05 p.m. ET ON A RECENT Tuesday afternoon, a dozen tiny tartlette crusts in fluted black metal molds released a buttery gust as Susan Hermann Loomis pulled them from the oven. These were nothing fancy, she wanted me to know. “Working people do the best cooking in France,” she […]
Asparagus is Back!
Asparagus is back, asparagus is back!!! The Loire Valley has done its magic, and bunches of white and green, fat, juicy asparagus stalks beckon. I could wait to indulge until Baptiste’s asparagus pokes through the soil of his nearby fields in Criqueboeuf sur Seine. But it’s been a long winter and I cannot. So I expand […]
Sunday Lunch in the Country
I’ve experienced and written a lot about Sunday Lunch, because I think it’s such a warm and admirable French tradition. Families and friends get together to while away the day simply enjoying – a meal, a beautiful table, each other. It’s always a moment hors temps, outside of time, where the clock ticks more slowly, […]
