Tuesday, May 22, 2018

INTERNATIONAL: ITALY: SICILY: Making tomato paste at home" Photos and VIDEO

LINK to ElizabethMinchilli.com site

Thursday, May 17, 2018

INTERNATIONAL: AMERICAN: Charlotte, North Carolina - Chef Ducasse

The Charlotte Observer: Breaking: Charlotte's newest uptown restaurant to have superstar French connection.

LINK: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/food-drink/article211159754.html

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INTERNATIONAL: AMERICAN - Preakness #143 - May 19 2018

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https://www.preakness.com/#

Pulled Pork Barbecue Recipe and Black-Eyed Susan Drink

Classic Maryland Crab Cakes

Preakness Party Recipes, Planning and more LINKS

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

INTERNATIONAL: American - Easy Breezy - The Kitchen from Foodnetwork.com: Recipes, photos and videos

https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/the-kitchen/episodes/easy-breezy

Easy Breezy

The Kitchen's serving up easy breezy recipes including Marcela Valladolid's Lemon Herb Grilled Chicken, chef Stuart O'Keeffe's Package Parceled Cod, and simple two-ingredient desserts. Plus, learn about seasonal greens and dressing pairings, then quick and easy side salads like Katie Lee's Roasted Carrots and Red Leaf Salad with Buttermilk Herb Dressing and Geoffrey Zakarian's Dandelion Green Salad with Warm Bacon and Shallot Vinaigrette. To top it all off, Geoffrey makes a Rumbarb Cocktail.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

INTERNATIONAL: BORDERLESS CUISINE 10 - Gascony, the Acquitane and the Midi-Pyrenees

Gascony prior to the French Revolution

BASQUE COUNTRY IN SPAIN AND FRANCE

French Basque Country in Pink

The cuisine of Gascony is one of the pillars of French cuisine. Its originality stems from its use of regional products and from an age-old tradition, typical of the Aquitane and the Midi-Pyrenees, of cooking in fat, in particular goose and duck fat.

Soups: The most famous Gascon soup is Garbure which is a thick French soup or stew of ham with cabbage and other vegetables, usually with cheese and stale bread added.

LINK to modern version of Garbure soup

Looks better than other, doesn't it? Jacques Pepin.

Entree: Foie gras is a popular and well-known delicacy in French cuisine.

I didn't enclose link because there are many importers on line where you can purchase.

Entree: Bayonne Ham or Jambon de Bayonne (aka French Proscuitto) is a cured ham that takes its name from the ancient port city of Bayonne in the far South West of France, a city located in both the cultural regions of Basque Country (Basque Country is made up of several areas in Northeastern Spain and Southeastern France) and Gascony.

Again, no recipe. Purchase on line.

Main course: Duck confit (French: confit de canard French pronunciation: con fee deh can nar) is a French dish made with the whole duck. In Gascony, according to the families perpetuating the tradition of duck confit, all the pieces of duck are used to produce the meal. Each part can have a specific destination in traditional cooking, the neck being used for example in an invigorating soup, the garbure. Duck confit is considered one of the finest French dishes.