La Vie Rustic: Cooking & Living in the French Style

by Georgeanne Brennan

Overview

The James Beard Award–winning author celebrates the traditions of French country living with evocative essays and simple, seasonal recipes.

Following an approach to daily cooking that’s rooted firmly in the French tradition, author Georgeanne Brennan crafts recipes driven by the seasons and the outdoors. Paired with lovely lifestyle photography, this inspiring cookbook weaves together her personal experience, stories, and tips about how to create a sustainable life—one that celebrates the relationship between the land and the table, and among food, family, and friends—no matter where you reside. 

Inside you’ll find delectable dishes that combine ingredients from forest, field, sea, and stream in casual meals for friends and family like green garlic and new potato soup, homecured olives, chestnut and pork stew, foie gras terrine, chicken liver pâté, beef braised in red wine and bone marrow, frozen meringues and fruit cream, snail stuffed mushroom, wild mushroom soup, Crème Brûlée with Black Truffles, lavender pepper goat cheese, and more.

With lovely recipes and tips for sustainable living, La Vie Rustic allows you to live the French lifestyle in your home!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681883076
Publisher:	Weldon Owen
Publication date:	09/11/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
Sales rank:	925,049
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Georgeanne Brennan is a James Beard award-winning cookbook author and journalist. She and her work have been featured in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Gourmet, Food and Wine, San Francisco Chronicle, Edible magazines and elsewhere. Her books have been translated into multiple languages, including her memoir, A Pig in Provence. In 2014 she founded La Vie Rustic: Sustainable Living in the French Style, a product line and on-line store. She lives in Northern California and travels several times a year to her long time home in Provence where she once lived, keeping goats and pigs and making and selling goats milk cheese.