Pastry making was one of my early culinary loves, but it has been many years since I actually worked in a pastry kitchen.

The cuisine we were taught was like the good Burgundian wine of the region, rich and flavorful.

To French gourmets September is the month of la renaissance culinaire and let no one tell you that connoisseurs don't look forward to this gastronomic awakening.

If you go to France in April, you do not go merely to capture the charm of the horse chestnuts in bloom on the Champs Elysée. You are there at Easter, and in France, that is la première fête in the Christian year...