L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Histoire d’un Festin, the Story of a Feast

    Histoire d’un Festin, the Story of a Feast

    Imagine. A house on the square of a quaint little village in the East of France. From the windows on the first floor you see the fountain, the road that lazily slopes towards the river, green beyond.  Imagine a house untouched by time for decades, its dust whirled by tiny furry feet only. A house… Read more

  • Saumonette Feuilletée and Changing Plans

    Saumonette Feuilletée and Changing Plans

    In fact I had planned on giving you the recipe of my Fameuse Pintade à la Marengo, but then it’s the year of plans overthrown, hence, today it shall be a Saumonette Feuilletée for you*. While plans overthrown might not always be easy to deal with**, occasionally there might be something good coming from it. Such… Read more

  • Cherries with Friends – How to Make Chriesitschope

    Cherries with Friends – How to Make Chriesitschope

    I made a Chriesitschope, isn’t this a glorious Swiss word, it essentially is a cherry cake and translated into English means Cherry Jacket. Now there’s hundreds of ways of making Chriesitschopes apparently, which is why here I give you my own version. And this is how it came about that I made a Chriesitschope:  The… Read more

  • Asperges en Chemise – In the Pace of the Seasons

    Asperges en Chemise – In the Pace of the Seasons

    As asparagus season slowly comes to a turn in our corner and we slide into the exquisitely languid summer months (hopefully, currently we’re all down to wet and cold), this year, with all that happened during the past months, the change perhaps is a little more marked. Now I am my mother’s daughter, and seasonal… Read more

  • Semelles aux Fraises – Or how to Eat a Shoe Sole

    Semelles aux Fraises – Or how to Eat a Shoe Sole

    We often had shoe soles for dessert. It’s a local specialty of the town where I partly grew up. One could buy them at the Confiserie, the pastry shop, over the counter two shoe soles please, you would say, and the lady would put them into crisp brown paper bags. Then she’d pick out a… Read more

  • Tarte Meringuée aux Groseilles – Lockdown Travel Diary

    Tarte Meringuée aux Groseilles – Lockdown Travel Diary

    Do you remember, she asked, when we stole red currants in that derelict garden, you know where we had this picnic and we all of a sudden noted the roof peeking out behind a maze of brambles and woods and the red currants glinting in the sun and we waded through the high grass and… Read more