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Larousse Gastronomique (pronounced [laʁus ɡastʁɔnɔmik]) is an encyclopedia of gastronomy [2] first published by Éditions Larousse in Paris in 1938. The majority of the book is about French cuisine, and contains recipes for French dishes and cooking techniques.
The cuisine of New Caledonia includes local Kanak, Melanesian, and traditional French cooking styles. [39] A notable local dish is bougna which is a stew composed of starches, taros, sweet potatoes, poingo bananas, yams, and is accompanied by local meat and cooked in coconut milk. [40] Seafood is also common including fish and lobster. [41]
Le Guide Culinaire (French pronunciation: [lə ɡid kylinɛːʁ]) is Georges Auguste Escoffier's 1903 French restaurant cuisine cookbook, his first. It is regarded as a classic and still in print. Escoffier developed the recipes while working at the Savoy, Ritz and Carlton hotels from the late 1880s to the time of publication.
In 1867, the French chef and pâtissier Jules Gouffé published Le livre de cuisine comprenant la grande cuisine et la cuisine de ménage (The Cookbook Including Grand And Domestic Cooking). [59] In this book, Gouffé listed twelve mother sauces. (He used both the terms grandes sauces and sauce mères).
An example of nouvelle cuisine presentation. Nouvelle cuisine (French: [nuvɛl kɥizin] ⓘ; 'new cuisine') is an approach to cooking and food presentation in French cuisine.In contrast to cuisine classique, an older form of haute cuisine, nouvelle cuisine is characterized by lighter, more delicate dishes and an increased emphasis on presentation.
Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession By Amy B. Trubek, University of Pennsylvania Press (December 2000), ISBN 978-0-8122-1776-6; Food culture in France By Julia Abramson, Greenwood Press (November 2006), ISBN 978-0-313-32797-1; Patrick Rambourg, Histoire de la cuisine et de la gastronomie françaises, Paris, Ed. Perrin ...
[n 1] A one-pot stew was a staple of French cooking, and the traditional recipe for poule-au-pot – also known as pot-au-feu à la béarnaise [7] – resembles that for pot-au-feu. [8] [n 2] One batch of pot-au-feu was maintained as a perpetual stew in Perpignan from the 15th century until World War II. [10]
Roux (/ r uː /) is a mixture of flour and fat cooked together and used to thicken sauces. [1] Roux is typically made from equal parts of flour and fat by weight. [2] The flour is added to the melted fat or oil on the stove top, blended until smooth, and cooked to the desired level of brownness. A roux can be white, blond (darker), or brown.