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When French Women Cook: A Gastronomic Memoir
Long lauded as one of the world'¬?s most revered culinary instructors, French-born Madeleine Kamman'¬?s career arose from remarkably humble beginnings in central France. As a young woman, Madeleine got her training by working in a family restaurant in Touraine and in the kitchens of France'¬?s most respected regional cooks, who nourished her appetite for the tradition, rig...more
Hardcover, 371 pages
Published
May 8th 2002
by Ten Speed Press
(first published 1982)
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I was not expecting controversy from this book. "Ooh," I thought, "a gastronomic memoir. Food, travel, color, some amusing autobiographical anecdotes..." Immediately, however, I found myself off balance. Kamman is clearly of another generation, another culture, another attitude towards feminism. Only a few pages in, I feel uncomfortably ambivalent about the scene she is setting. She opens:
Where are you, my France, where women cooked, where stars in cooking did not go to men anxious for publicity...more
Where are you, my France, where women cooked, where stars in cooking did not go to men anxious for publicity...more
Contains, among other things, a superb recipe for cream of dandelion soup. Handy if you're barge-ing through Burgundy, all the groceries have closed, and you need to feed a crew of 11 lunch.
Recuedos of the author of 7 women she cooked with. Each is from a different area of France. The receipes are heavy on the meats. I look forward to trying a few of them over a cold weekend.
Especially looking forward to making some of the desserts.
Travel back in time with this wonderful memoir which will delight all your senses, and try the recipes: many contain unique techniques not found in your ordinary cookbooks…
The recipes are wonderful, yes, but what I enjoyed most about this book was the way it was organized. Kamman groups the recipes by region and by the woman she learned them from; it's half cookbook, half memoir, and entirely beautiful.
What a delightful memoir! A must-read. And while we haven't made any the the recipes in Kamman's book, we have definitely followed the flavours of her recommendations for procedures and techniques.
Really enjoyed the chapters on each woman and her cooking style. The recipes I tried were all scrumptious!
Contains the definitive recipe for roast chicken stuffed with morels with cream sauce.
Read this if you cook and your mother wasn't french.
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