french food

Frederik de Pue whisks mayonnaise, instead of raw eggs, into his bearnaise sauce.

Arts

How To Hack Béarnaise, A Mother Of A French Sauce

12:41pm July 18, 2015

by Nina Totenberg

Béarnaise is a classic French sauce typically served with steak. But it's tricky for a home chef to keep the raw egg and the butter in it from separating. A chef reveals his secret weapon.

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The Arc de Triomphe is visible behind a McDonald's restaurant on the Champs Elysees in Paris, France. The nation is now McDonald's second-biggest market, but one historic neighborhood known as "the belly of Paris" has pledged to keep it out.

A Battle Royale To Keep McDonald's Out Of Historic Food Hub In Paris

10:33am July 18, 2015

by Eleanor Beardsley

France is now McDonald's No. 2 market. But in a Paris neighborhood historically considered the soul of French gastronomy, residents are fighting tooth and nail to keep the fast-food giant out.

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A sampling of the multicourse menu served at the Gout de France dinner at the French embassy in Washington, D.C.: (clockwise from top left): seasonal vegetables with winter truffle Bayonne ham crisps; slowly cooked monkfish with fennel pollen flavors in "

Liberte, Egalite, Gastronomie? France Rallies To Defend Its Food's Honor

10:48am March 30, 2015

by Maria Godoy

With fast food now a staple at home and Danish and Spanish chefs in the limelight, France's culinary supremacy is no longer a given. The government has mobilized to save French food traditions.

Author Mimi Thorisson and her husband, photographer Oddur Thorisson, moved their six children and dogs from a Parisian apartment to a farmhouse in the Médoc region of France.

World News

A Family's Fall Harvest Blooms In 'A Kitchen In France'

1:06pm October 28, 2014

by Lauren Hodges

Since moving her large family from a Paris apartment to a historic farmhouse in the French countryside, author Mimi Thorisson has found a way to merge the best of the different worlds she has known.