A generation ago French cuisine set the bench-mark for fine dining, but times have changed. Perhaps being only a short train ride away, the charms of French cuisine are no longer exotic enough for our globe – trotting taste buds, but I fear our falling out of love with French cuisine runs deeper. For too long French cooking has been represented internationally by the edicts of huat cuisine. Stereotypical chefs, over-elaborate preparations, rich dishes and complicated wines lists, while the quintessential French dining experience has become synonymous with silver domes, white table clothes and surly waiters with bow ties and bad attitudes. Is there more to French food than the Ooh La La! – I believe there is and below are link to some of may favorite French recipes.
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Pear Blue Cheese and Watercress Salad – Cycling Picnic Recipes
My summer of work as a cycling guide in France is about to begin. After a long English winter, in th...
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A Bad French Joke And A Recipe For Gougeres
What is the french word for dentures? Apéritifs. Peering into the diary it is now less th...
Spring Has Sprung in Burgundy
The villages of the Cote d’Or are eerily quiet in late April. Cats sleep in sharp late morning sha...
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Cervelle de Canut (Silk Weavers Brain)
Before you all leave this page in total disgust at the prospect of being made to eat a silk weavers ...
The Hungry Cyclist Podcast – Cambodian Food In London
This month The Hungry Cyclist Podcast takes us to Lemongrass, a Cambodian restaurant in Camden North...
Cream Of Chestnut and Whiskey Tart – Ardeche Recipes
Having just returned from a fine few days cycling in the hills of the Ardeche in South West France I...
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Local Pig Kill France 2009
As more butchers hang up their hooks and supermarkets in all their shapes and sizes spring up on eve...
Wild Boar Hunt and a Vegan Treat
Taking to the voguish back streets of London’s East End last week, I found myself dining in a vega...
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Photos From Wild Boar Hunting In France
The Hungry Cyclist has been away. Taking a week off in L'Ardeche in Southern France and seeing my pa...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 21: Paris. The Paris Brest
Well thats all folks. The race has been run, Alberto is kissing the girls and all over France farmer...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 20: Montelimar – Mont Ventoux. BBQ Leg of Lamb Provençal
Well we are almost home now and just as well before my hernia sets in. All this food has left me bul...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 19: Bourgain Jallieu – Aubenas. Marron Glace Sundae
This years tour is now winding up and leaving the high Alps it looks like a Spaniard will tak...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 18: Annecy Time Trail. Trout en Papillotte (Trout in Paper)
Well blow me down, posting recipes every day of the tour is almost as hard as riding it, well perhap...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 17: Bourg St Maurice -Le Grand Bornand. Gratin Dauphinois
Stage 17 of this years Tour de France is without question the hardest of the lot. Five huge climbs w...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 16: Martigny – Bourg St Maurice. Savoy Cabbage Tagliatelle
From Switzerland, into Italy and back into France, Stage 16 is a truly international stage of the To...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 15: Pontarlier – Verbier. A Tartiflette
After brief visits to Monaco, Andorra and Spain, Stage 15th of the 2009 Tour de France takes us into...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 14: Colmar – Besancon. A Comte Fondue
Believe it or not Stage 14 of this years tour, that hugs the Swiss border, is going to be a flat one...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 13: Vittel – Colmar. Flammekueche
Hugging Frances' border with Germany, Stage 13 will see the riders leave the department of Lorra...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 12: Tonnerre – Vittel. Quiche Lorraine
Presenting one of the last chances for the sprinters to flex their muscles, Stage 12 of this years t...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 11: Vatan – Saint Fargeau. Escargots Bourguignons
Stage 11 of the 2009 Tour takes the riders into Northern Burgundy. A wine lovers paradise rich in hi...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 10: Limoges – Issouden. Jargeau
Eating The Tour De France Stage 10: Limouges - Issouden. Jargeau Well rested after a day off in ...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 9: St Gaudens – Tarbes. Pan-Seared Foie Gras
Stage 9: St Gaudens - Tarbes. Pan-Seared Foie Gras Well rested after a day of woun...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 8: Barcelona – Andorre la Vielle – Saint Girons: Garbure
Eating The Tour De France Stage 8: Garbure The Ariège lies in the heart of the Pyre...
Eating The Tour De France Stage 5: Cap d’Agde – Perpignan. Boles de Picolat
Still on the Mediterranean coast, this 195 km stage from Cap d'Agde to Perpignan should provide ...
Eating The Tour de France – Stage 4: Rouille De Seiche/Cuttlefish stew
Having hardly come up from my computer, the Tour is already on Stage 4. Mark Cavendish has taken t...
Eating The Tour de France – Stage 3: Bouillabaisse
Marseille - La Grande-Motte - 196.5 km The third stage of the 2009 Tour will ta...
Eating The Tour de France – Stage 2: Moules Mariniere
Stage 2 - Monaco to Brignoles - 187 kmThe first part of the second stage hugs the seafr...
Eating The Tour de France Stage 1: Seared Cod with Mediterranean Salsa
For cycling fans every where, it’s that time again. The greatest race on earth has just begu...
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Celeriac Remoulade – A Perfect BBQ Salad
Celeriac is not a pretty vegetable. Resembling the shruken-heads of some jungle tribe, they sit negl...
