French Cuisine

Hardest Reservation in Paris: New Trier Grad's Restaurant

Flora Lazar | Posted 08.24.2009 | Chicago


Flora Lazar

The high priests of French gastronomy may not have been convinced that American chefs have arrived, but the market itself has spoken. For the last year there's been a six-month wait to get a table at a young Chicagoan's Paris restaurant.

A Crème Brûlée to Knock Your Socks Off

Bridget Moloney | Posted 03.16.2009 | Style


Bridget Moloney

This week I made crème brûlée for the first time as part of Bon Appetít's Project Recipe, and let me tell you, this is a recipe to knock your socks off.

Ecole Boulud: On the Job Training for James Beard's Rising Star

Flora Lazar | Posted 03.13.2009 | Style


Flora Lazar

Kaysen was able to boil down his chef's bon mots to five big lessons. They must be working. Less that a year into the job, Kaysen won the James Beard award for most promising young chef.

American Cheese Mongers: the New Curds on the Block

Flora Lazar | Posted 02.27.2009 | Style


Flora Lazar

Time to show that the artisan cheese industry in the US is more than a lot of hot air from the Slow Food and sustainable agriculture movements.

The Campaign To Save French Food

The New York Times | ELAINE SCIOLINO | Posted 10.26.2008 | Style


Their battlefield is filled, they know, with hidden land mines and cunning enemies. So around a half-dozen French chefs and culinary experts from the...

A Quick And Easy Way To Get Your Scallop On

The New York Times | MARK BITTMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


THERE remains much to like about French haute cuisine, especially the innovations of the '70s and '80s, the period of so-called nouvelle cuisine, when...