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Frisée Salad with Lardons and Poached Eggs

The secret to this take on salad lyonnaise is very fresh eggs. If the slab bacon you're using is particularly lean, add 1 tablespoon vegetable oil to the skillet when cooking.
February 1999
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A Kitchen was His Laboratory

Elizabeth David's books on French and Italian country cooking in the 1950s revealed a world of real food uninhabited by the high priests of haute cuisine.
March 1970
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Heritage of Alexandre Dumaine

The Hôtel de la Côte-d'Or. in Saulieu has almost the character of a national shrine.
February 1964
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The Bordeaux Appellations

They have left behind them, inscribed on French wine labels, these two extraordinarily important words “Appellation Contrôlée”.
May 1960
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From the Notebooks of Louis Diat: Shallots, Shad Roe, and Lamb

The flavor of shallots resembles that of the onion, but it is mellower and much more subtle.
May 1959
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Primer for Gourmets: First Lessons in Pudding Cookery

Long, long before my time, in the era of that great nineteenth-century master, Marie-Antoine Carême, desserts played a double role in classical French dinners.
March 1959

Primer for Gourmets

When people today complain of New York's summertime heat, dust, and noise, I can't help but think of my first years here, the summers of 1911 to 1913.
August 1958
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Primer for Gourmets

July 1958
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Primer for Gourmets

May 1958
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Primer for Gourmets: April 1958

First lessons in casserole cookery.
April 1958
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