This is it! The everyday French cookbook you’ll truly cook from, night after night.
Grounded in the wisdom of classical French cooking, yet updated for today, Everyday French Cooking emphasizes easy technique, simple food, and speedy preparation of French cuisine without sacrificing taste. Too often, French cooking evokes images of fine dining at ornate restaurants where a small army of chefs hover over sauces for hours, employing precision technique, special utensils, and obscure ingredients to craft elegant dishes. But this image of French cooking bears little resemblance to the way real French families eat. The French, like their American counterparts, want
healthy and delicious food made quickly from easy-to-find ingredients using typical, everyday utensils.
From modern takes on classic French dishes—like fish meunière and boeuf bourguignon—
to recipes for the kind of cooking found in typical French homes today,
Everyday French Cooking goes beyond a typical cookbook to include engaging
anecdotes,
local color, and
keen insights about French home kitchens, as well as
tips,
tricks, and
shortcuts to make French cooking accessible to any home cook. Dozens of beautiful finished-food photographs will further inspire you to cook fresh, vivid everyday French food any night of the week.
Enjoy making, sharing, and savoring simple French recipes including:
- Melty Goat Cheese Salad with Honey and Pine Nuts
- Scallop Chowder with Fines Herbes
- Any-Day Chicken Sauté
- Steak with Cherry and Red Wine Sauce
- Pork Chops with Mustard-Caper Sauce
- Simple Beef Stew from Provence
- Roasted Salmon with Leeks, Wine, and Garlic
- Classic French Pizzas
- Strawberry-Caramel Crèpes with Mascarpone Cream
- Chocolate Pot de Crème
- Lemon Curd Crème Brûlée
Time-pressed cooks will especially appreciate the entire chapter of
main-dish recipes that can be made in 30 minutes or less. Indeed, this book proves, again and again, that the joys of the French table are open to everyone. You can live modestly and cook simply, yet dine splendidly, night after night.
Wini Moranville grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, and attended the University of Iowa, graduating with a B.A. in French and English. She subsequently moved to New York City, where she worked for Societe Generale (a French bank), Elle magazine, and Oxford University Press. She was later transferred to the Oxford, U.K., branch of this publisher, where she worked as a publicity manager. She obtained her M.A. in English from Iowa State University in 1993; in 1994, she began her present career as a food and wine writer/editor. Her food stories have appeared in lifestyle magazines including Better Homes and Gardens, Country Home, Simply Perfect Italian, Holiday Appetizers, Holiday Celebrations, Holiday Menus, Creative Home, Indulge magazine (a luxury lifestyle magazine in Fort Worth, Texas), and DSM (a luxury lifestyle magazine in Des Moines). She has also served as a writer and editor for numerous cookbooks under the Better Homes and Gardens imprint, including the past three editions of the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book. Since 1997, she has also written over 500 restaurant reviews for The Des Moines Register. In addition to the dining column, she writes occasional pieces about wine, food, and travel for this newspaper. In recent years, Moranville has added wine and culinary and wine travel to the topics that she covers regularly. She currently writes a monthly wine column for Relish magazine, a food magazine launched in February 2006, with a circulation of over 15 million, distributed through daily newspapers nationwide. Moranville is a member of the James Beard Foundation, and has served as a Restaurant Awards panelist since 2005.
