The recipes for this week's Cook the Book come from Patricia Wells's Vegetable Harvest, a book inspired by the potager (French vegetable garden) that Wells keeps at her home in Provence. The recipes include summer and autumn vegetables, so it should keep you going for several months yet. As is always these features, we're giving away five (5) copies of the book. If you'd like to win, just tell us what you enjoy growing the most in your own vegetable garden. Don't have a garden? Then what would you grow if you could? Winners will be chosen at random from among the commenters. The usual Serious Eats contest policy applies. Comments will be open until Saturday (August 25) at noon...
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Food & Wine's Jane Sigal, who really knows her stuff when it comes to eating in Paris (she worked for Patricia Wells for years), chimed in with a terrific list of reasonably priced places to eat in Paris two years ago. I somehow missed this list when it came out in the magazine, so I was happy when it reappeared on the F&W website. Who else is a good go-to person for Paris eating? Blogger extraordinaire David Lebovitz, of course. We're going to be featuring Dave's nifty new book, The Perfect Scoop, in a future Cook the Book....
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Food critic and cookbook author Patricia Wells put together a downloadable version of her FrenchEnglish Food Glossary, to make eating in France less of a guessing game for those who don't speak French. "In preparing this glossary," she says, "I have tried to limit the list to contemporary terms, making this a practical guide for today's traveler in France. Translations are generally offered for those dishes, foods, and menus, in markets, expressions or terms phrases one is most likely to encounter on menus and in shops. I have also added regional terms one might not find explained elsewhere." The glossary is available as a Microsoft Word .doc and an Adobe .pdf, so pick the format you like most, and print...
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My brother Mike just got back from a long weekend in Paris (lucky him) and because he is as obsessed with food as I am, he immediately called us to tell me about two great meals he had. Le Severo is a tiny bistro that specializes in great aged Limousin beef, saucisson and frites. Those are all the major Levine food groups in one meal. Need I say more? Perhaps to counteract the effects of all the aforementioned animal fat he and his wife Carol also went to a really simple fish restaurant, Cagouille. He found both restaurants on Patricia Wells' website. Wells is the restaurant critic at the International Tribune and a terrific cookbook writer. Her Food Lover's Guide...
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