Tag: French cuisine
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Barigoule
Barigoule is a traditional Provençal dish of braised artichokes in a warm and slightly tangy white wine broth. It can be made vegetarian by using vegetable stock instead of chicken stock. It’s extremely important to plunge the artichokes into iced water with lemon juice as soon as they’re cut. Otherwise they’ll go an unpleasant dark…
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Coq au vin
Coq au vin is a French dish of chicken braised with red wine, lardons, mushrooms, and garlic. Legend has it that Julius Caesar’s cook created the first coq au vin recipe after the Gauls gave Caesar a tough old cockerel as tribute for his conquering them. Caesar’s cook made the bird into a delicious meal…
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Foie gras
Foie gras (French: ‘fatty liver’) is a luxury food that seriously divides opinions. It’s hard to think of any more controversial dish that you can eat without breaking the law (but we’ll come back to that below). Gourmets prize it as the last word in richness and subtlety of flavour. Animal rights activists condemn the…