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Restaurant Review: La Cuisine de Philippe, St. Germain, Paris

I’m going to take this opportunity to say that lamb occupies an overrated position in the culinary calendar when you consider the...

There really are few greater things that a well roasted chicken. On a recent episode of the Kitchen Cabinet, a member of the audience...

Warning: This post contains an image that some may find distressing. This afternoon to Pere Lachaise, the famous cemetery set on a hill...

Once upon a time, in a land of castles and villages, rolling hills and verdant fields, there were no restaurants, no bistros and no...

Parfait is quite close to ice cream, but to call it ice cream does it a disservice (like calling a Concorde a passenger jet)—it is far...

An old friend was coming over for dinner, so I consulted my copy of Larousse Gastronomique—the veritable bible of cooking, which weighs...

Broccoli was, for a long time, a vegetable that I really struggled with. My memories of it were filled with sad, overcooked, plain boiled...

A really good lemon meringue pie should have a nice biscuity pastry base, topped with a really tangy lemon filling and sweet, cloud-like...

Hollandaise sauce has gone out of fashion somewhat, partly because it is seen as something of a faff to make, when really it is quite...

Homemade mayonnaise really is incredibly easy to make once you know how. As well as being a classic sauce with a thousand different uses,...

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