Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours

When Julia Child told Dorie Greenspan, “You write recipes just the way I do,” she paid her the essential compliment. Julia’s praise was echoed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which referred to Dorie’s “wonderfully encouraging voice” and “the sense of a real person who is there to help should you stumble.”

 

Now in a huge, personal, and personable book, Dorie captures all the excitement of French home cooking, sharing disarmingly simple dishes she has gathered over years of living in France.

Around My French Table includes many superb renditions of the fantastic classics: a glorious cheese-domed onion soup, a spoon-tender beef daube, and the “top-secret” chocolate mousse recipe that every excellent Parisian cook knows—but won’t reveal.

 

Hundreds of additional recipes are remarkably simple: a cheese and lime quick bread, a three-star chef’s Basque potato tortilla made with a surprise ingredient (potato chips), and an utterly satisfying heat chicken for “bone idle people.”

 

Packed with lively tales, memories, and insider tips on French culinary customs, Around My French Table will make cooks fall in like with France all over again, or for the first time.