A meal in France.
Few people can resist the invitation.
Savoring France invites readers on an unhurried culinary tour in search of the true French table, an intriguing tapestry of local specialties and national dishes. Together the recipes, each one stunningly photographed, deliver a fully drawn portrait of French cooking that reveals a respect for the rustic and the refined, the traditional and the innovative. But this is also a book for cooks who love to read. Award-winning author Georgeanne Brennan, who has owned a farmhouse in Haute Provence for some three decades, shares a wealth of stories and lore that takes readers from raising goats in the hills above Nice to dining in a fashionable restaurant in Paris to cooking bouillabaisse over a driftwood fire at the beach. In over two dozen boxed features, she explores such intriguing topics as the importance of the cheese course in the French meal, the heady taste and fragrance of herbes de Provence, and the New Year's Eve ritual of raw oysters and Champagne.