Innehållsförteckning för French Cooking & Entertaining 2019 från Victoria

Many of my most memorable gourmet experiences involve Gallic cuisine. The highlight of a week spent in Paris with a friend was pausing daily at a street-side café. Arranged in glass cases, an array of sweets beckoned, from flaky croissants to luscious fruit-filled confections. On our first visit, I selected an exquisite tart with a glistening halved apricot nestled in a crisp pâte sucrée shell. The taste was so heavenly that I abandoned all plans to explore the menu and instead returned each afternoon for another serving of that mouthwatering dessert. “Pâtisserie Delights,” on page 89, takes me back to that sojourn to the City of Light. When my husband and I toured Normandy years later, we enjoyed a delectable meal in the inn where we stayed. Dinner was a…

RECIPE INDEX Orange Blossom Honey Madeleines p.89 Makes 24 1 cup all-purpose flour½ teaspoon baking powder½ teaspoon ground ginger¼ teaspoon salt½ cup unsalted butter, softened¾ cup orange blossom honey2 large eggs1 egg white1 tablespoon grated orange zest½ teaspoon vanilla extractGarnish: confectioners’ sugar 1. Preheat oven to 325˚. Spray 2 (12-well) madeleine pans with baking spray with flour. 2. In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, ginger, and salt. 3. In a separate medium bowl, beat butter with a mixer at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add honey, and beat until smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, and egg white, beating well after each addition. Add orange zest and vanilla extract, beating until combined. Reduce mixer speed to low, and gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, beating until…

The quiet of early morning finds Sharon Santoni taking in the wonders of her surroundings. The calendar promises a shopping excursion to Paris—an easy distance from her home in Normandy—but even the City of Light’s most notable brocantes cannot compete with the natural gifts found within this pastoral oasis. Cup of tea in hand, she surveys cascades of roses, tangles of nigella, and clusters of foxgloves while her dogs frolic nearby. “As soon as I saw this house, it felt just right,” Sharon says. “We are on the edge of a small village, and my children grew up riding in the forest, canoeing on the river, and hosting many a great party in the garden.” Built in the late 1850s, the classical maison de maître features the symmetrical design and…

CONTRIBUTING WRITER BRITTANY WILLIAMS FLOWERS: pages 73–78 CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS JEAN BAPTISTE-PELLERIN: pages 3–4, 22–26, and 97 JANE HOPE: pages 6 and 9–18 KEITH SCOTT MORTON: pages 37 and 39–40 ERIC RICHARDS: pages 37 and 39–40 EDOUARD SICOT: pages 10, 19–21, 23–24, 42, and 61–68 MARCY BLACK SIMPSON: cover and pages 2, 5–6, 41–52, and 71–94 ANSON SMART: pages 6, 42, 53–58, and 60 CONTRIBUTING STYLISTS KATHLEEN COOK VARNER: cover and pages 2, 6, 72–78, 89, 91 and 94 MISSIE NEVILLE CRAWFORD: cover and pages 72–78 MARIE-PAULE FAURE: pages 3–4, 19–26, and 97 CONTRIBUTING RECIPE DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD STYLING REBECCA TREADWELL SPRADLING: page 69 LOREN WOOD: cover and pages 6 and 71–94…

“THERE ARE AS MANY KINDS OF BEAUTY AS THERE ARE … WAYS OF SEEKING HAPPINESS.”—Charles Baudelaire For over two decades, stylist Marie-Paule Faure has brought her elegant taste and innumerable talents to the pages of magazines seen throughout Europe and America, including Victoria. When she published her first book, Recevoir Simple & Chic: Idées Déco, Art de la Table, Recettes (Simple & Chic Entertaining: Décor Ideas, Art of the Table, Recipes), four years ago, it opened the door to some wonderful opportunities, as people began asking her to teach them the secrets behind her gracious settings, entertaining expertise, and lifestyle. At first, she resisted the idea. “I find it difficult to theorize something that has always been very natural and intuitive for me,” she explains. “But at the same time,…

A lush, 400-year-old walnut tree stands behind Georgeanne’s Northern California home, its graceful branches forming a leafy awning to shelter a gathering of guests on the stone patio below. Just beyond a large table set with vintage linens, a grape arbor soaks up the noonday sun, and aromas wafting from the farmhouse kitchen have awakened even the sleepiest of appetites. This breezy scene encapsulates the relaxed French way of life that attracted this warm-hearted hostess so many years ago. “I went to school in Aix-en-Provence, and I loved the life of the markets, the intellectual feeling of European life,” says Georgeanne. “I went back in the summer of 1970 and spent a month with friends in a farmhouse in the countryside near Aix, walking in the fields, cooking from the…

Below is a listing of products and companies featured in this issue. Items not listed are privately owned and are not for sale. Pricing and availability may vary. Pages 11–18: For more information on Sharon Santoni, visit her websites, sharonsantoni.com and mystylishfrenchbox.com. Pages 19–26: For more information about Marie-Paule Faure, visit her website at mariepaulefaure.com. French Affaires, frenchaffaires.com. Vintage tableware from Cassiopée, Village Saint Paul, 23-25 Rue Saint Paul, 75004 Paris, France, +33 1 42 74 00 45; and from Brocante de la Rue des Martyrs, 75009 Paris, France, vide-greniers.org/75-Paris. Pages 27–31: Special thanks to Amber Spiegel of SweetAmbs, sweetambs.com. Pages 27–28, 30–31, 33: Edgars Bakery, 3407 Colonnade Parkway, Birmingham, AL, 205-968-4031, edgarsbakery.com. Page 29: Chas Field Haviland: Flat Cup & Saucer Set in Marie Antoinette, Large Dinner Plate in…