And, The Little Paris Kitchen. Very intrigued by Rachel Khoo's entrepreneurial spirit and love the location, in Belleville. She is writing a cookbook and this is her method of testing her recipes and, also, un peu d'argent. There is a short video on the site. http://www.thelittlepariskitchen.com/lunch
The Cordon Bleu school is an icon. This is the school that began Julia Child's journey into cooking history in the early 1950's in Paris and can be read about in Appetite for Life http://www.amazon.ca/Appetite-Life-Biogr....16612606&sr=8-1
A decent to good, much more recent book is, The Sharper Your knife, the Less You Cry,
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Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #124 on Sept 21, 2011, 4:32pm »
Well, you'll need bit of patience for this post. I love anything that is 'out of time, out of place.' In #122, Kerouac mentioned a site, http://www.lacuisinedebertrand.com/en/
I was intrigued. (re above post). Moments later, I went to the home page and noticed that we had a new member, bpollet. Great, I thought! Daily, I visit about 5 forums on Paris and France. On one, ThornTree, in the last few months, I had noticed many generous and well thought out posts from a poster who lives in Paris, bpollet, (nothing to do with cooking.)
Within moments, I received a short PM from bpollet. To be concise, it turns out that bpollet is Bertrand of the cooking course in the post above! I don't think that he will mind this quotation, _________________________________________________
Bertrand, "I personnally tried l'atelier des chefs in paris and it was great.
The difference between what I propose and what you could have with l'atelier des chef is that they are professionnal chefs, and I'm not (I'm a civil engineer who loves sharing his cooking passion). You'll learn there very good cooking techniques. On the other hand, at my place you'll experience more than just cooking techniques such as how french people live, you will also discover some rare vegetable species grown in the Versailles Potager du Roi."
Actually, I strongly recommend you to experience both because Atelier des chefs is a very good cooking school and also because at my place you'll have the opportunity to get in touch with french people".
__________________________________________________ Needless to say, I have booked with la Cuisine de Bertrand...... "a civil engineer who loves sharing his cooking passion.' Yes. Welcome to bpoulet, he is , I think, our first chef here?.
And, The Little Paris Kitchen. Very intrigued by Rachel Khoo's entrepreneurial spirit and love the location, in Belleville. She is writing a cookbook and this is her method of testing her recipes and, also, un peu d'argent. There is a short video on the site. http://www.thelittlepariskitchen.com/lunch
Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #128 on Sept 21, 2011, 5:28pm »
Jazz, Every other time that I tried to book at The Little Paris Kitchen, I made the mistake of waiting to ask a friend to go with me, etc. This time I booked it as soon as I got an email with the upcoming dates from Rachel. I'll be sure to let you know how it goes.
Likewise, please tell us about your experience with Bertrand. His website looks very interesting.
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Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #131 on Sept 22, 2011, 12:22am »
Oui, très sympa.
This might be an odd request as you live in Paris, but I'm also interested in hints about cheapish places to say, whether hotels, hostels (appropriate for middle-aged people) or rentals, apartment swaps (for my place in Montréal) etc.
Comme il va sans dire, je parle français.
We have another thread on that - started again by the wonderful Jazz. Other foodies stuff or any quirky stuff that doesn't cost the moon as well!
Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #132 on Sept 27, 2011, 4:25pm »
Jazz,
I had a great time at The Little Paris Kitchen last week. Rachel was a charming host and I enjoyed talking with the other guests. Here's the link for the blog post that I wrote about it:
Amazon.com just sent an email saying that they have shipped The Ethnic Paris Cookbook! After all of the good reviews here on Any Port, I can't wait to look at it.
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Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #133 on Sept 27, 2011, 6:16pm »
Sojoh,
Thank you! Your blog, Out and About in Paris, is now part of my daily reading. What a great post about La Petite Cuisine, the meal looks delicious and it sounds like an exceptional experience. Rachel and I have been in touch and I will be keeping my eyes on the October dates. Somehow, I doubt that there will be 'room at the inn', but, will certainly try.
Good to hear about the Ethnic Paris cookbook. Mon dieu, after all this , I hope you like it! Don't worry, if nothing else, it is worth it for the illustrations and aesthetic set up , alone. Let us know what you think.
Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #134 on Sept 28, 2011, 11:59am »
I'm sure that the Ethnic Paris Cookbook will live up to its reputation. The only problem is that I won't be able to start using it right away because I had it sent to my daughter's address so that I can pick it up when I'm in Boston next week.
Thanks for reading my blog. I'll be posting from Paris for the next couple of days but then I'm taking it on the road with me. I'll be back to posting about Paris after October 18.
This is a bit off topic, but I hope to make it to a couple of the chef lectures at Harvard, particularly the Grant Achatz one on Monday. http://seas.harvard.edu/cooking
Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #135 on Mar 23, 2012, 2:57pm »
Quoting from their website: "famous restaurant is the "Le President" (the president) where among others the then French president François Mitterand was a guest. But the base of all these was the "Tai Yien" in Paris, the name that was taken over to run a restaurant in Wabern offering Chinese and Thai specialities.
In 1999 family Ngo took over the Chinese restaurant at the bottom of Bern's Gurten from the "Tao Tao Group" and continued running it under the same name. A year later (2000) it was renamed and the restaurant is since then known as "Tai Yien".
I have a keen desire to go to Tai Yien at 5 rue de Belleville for some Dim Sum but don't understand what they are referring to above?
Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #136 on Mar 27, 2012, 5:56pm »
I was looking at the menu of Aux Delices De Maxime in rue De Crimee and wondered if you can tell me what they are offering when the menu reads: Le plateau de 30 bricks (pomme de terre/oeuf/thon)?
Quoting from their website: "famous restaurant is the "Le President" (the president) where among others the then French president François Mitterand was a guest. But the base of all these was the "Tai Yien" in Paris, the name that was taken over to run a restaurant in Wabern offering Chinese and Thai specialities.
I've eaten at Le Président (which used to be a furniture store!). It was quite good, but not earthshaking. It is upstairs away from the hustle and bustle of Belleville, which is a minus as far as I'm concerned. If I'm going to Belleville, I want to see the action.
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Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #138 on Mar 27, 2012, 6:38pm »
Tod, that would be very thin pastry (like phyllo?) folded to contain potato, egg and tuna. Usually baked in the oven or fried so that the pastry is crisp.
I actually made some the other day with spinach, cheese and a slice of hard-boiled egg. Unfortunately, they weren't quite as shapely as the pics I found on recipe sites on the Internet.
I think Feuille de brick tends to be used in Moroccan cooking.
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Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #139 on Mar 27, 2012, 6:44pm »
Brik pastry is available in every supermarket and can be used for desserts as well as savoury dishes. I think I posted a few pictures of briks I made in the past on the dinner thread, but they are never really photogenic like in the magazine spreads.
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Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #140 on Mar 27, 2012, 6:53pm »
Hmmm.... I just scanned all the photos in my food treasury in Photobucket and could not find a single photo that I took of a brik, so they must have been really ugly (I have posted some pretty bad looking stuff.).
Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #141 on Mar 28, 2012, 11:01am »
Ok, so it's basically something inside a thin pastry - Thanks! I will be wanting to try one from one of the Turkish , Moroccan or Lebanese places.
Kerouac, what I really wanted to know was where is: Chinese restaurant at the bottom of Bern's Gurten - Also, what or where is Wabern? These places are not in Paris or are they?
Looking at Tai Yien on PagesJaunes it appears as a downstairs restaurant and this is the one that has high recommendations for dim sum. Looks like the President is history then?
Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #143 on Mar 31, 2012, 3:45pm »
OK, I've dug a little deeper and yes, you are quite right Kerouac, the venue is in Switzerland. I don't know how the website kept referring to Le President as Tai Yien, because I now know that the Dim sum Tai Yien is at 5 rue de Belleville and that Royal Belleville is at 124 rue Faubourg du Temple.
I will be aiming for Tai Yien and see if it lives up to its Dim Sum image!
Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #145 on Apr 11, 2012, 9:03am »
Yippee! I found a place that serves BRIKS! I found Chez Jafaar, 22 Rue Sommerard, in the 5th. They have a very nice website which includes quite a long video. Here's the Menu which has many variations: http://www.restaurantjaafar.com/Chez_Jaa....JaafarMenu2.pdf
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Re: Paris, time to eat modestly and beautifully... « Reply #146 on Apr 11, 2012, 9:44am »
Just about any couscous restaurant will have briks. A word of warning for "brik à l'oeuf," the most common one -- cut into the brik with precaution, because if you are too energetic with the knife and fork, you can squirt yourself with hot egg yolk and it is not fun.
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Don't worry, if nothing else, it is worth it for the illustrations and aesthetic set up , alone. Let us know what you think.
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