Come Cook in France 2017
April 5-8, 2017 – Focus: Wine Pairings April 12-15, 2017- Focus: French Appetizers May 3-6, 2017 – Focus: Pastry May 17-20, 2017 June 4-9, 2017 – Focus: Regional French June 11-16, 2017 Can you hear the sizzle? It’s onions turning golden in goose fat, where they’ll stay until they’re crisp. Then, we’ll fold them […]
Details from the Week
November and another delicious class has just ended at On Rue Tatin. It is always hard to say goodbye when so much has been shared, even for a few days. It is amazing how attached we become through cooking and eating together, visiting the market and marveling at the details of life in a French town. […]
Tomatoes and Apples
I love shoulder seasons like this moment of autumn. Tomatoes are still hanging on the vine and full of sweet flavor; apples are literally dropping from the tree, and pears are ripe, aromatic, lush. We’ve got new autumn turnips, their skin so fine it almost peels off, and potimarron (kuri squash), those harbingers of short […]
Apples Apples Everywhere
Friends recently stopped by with two huge crates of apples that ranged from scrubby green to lush, deep red. When I asked about the varieties I was met with a shrug. “We don’t know; these trees have always been on the farm,” said Francois Bourdon, who brought them. “Some are for eating, some are for […]
