Jean-Pierre Moullé & Denise Lurton Moullé - French Roots

Intimate Meals with Famed Authors at The Spinster Sisters Restaurant in Santa Rosa

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A narratively rich cookbook of French and Californian recipes from longtime Chez Panisse executive chef Jean-Pierre Moullé and his wife, Denise Moullé. French Roots spans 60 years and two continents, following the lives of its authors through food. Beginning with the dishes of old-world France, the couple’s birthplace, the book focuses on the simple, pared-down preparations of French food common in the postwar period. Their story then travels to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s, where Jean-Pierre was appointed executive chef at Chez Panisse when California cuisine was just emerging as a distinctive and important style, and where Denise began importing French wine. Finally, the journey returns to France, where the couple revisit the classic dishes of their native country and forgotten skills of foraging, hunting, and preserving at their home in Bordeaux. So much more than a collection of 100 elegant recipes, French Roots is the story of an adventure of two people and two cuisines.

Until his retirement in April 2012, Jean-Pierre Moullé was the executive chef at Chez Panisse, where he began working in 1975. Denise Moullé comes from the Bordeaux wine-making empire of the Lurton family. She worked as a wine distributor in California for many years before starting Two Bordelais in 1987, which offers guided tours through France.

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French Roots: Two Cooks, Two Countries, and the Beautiful Food along the Way [A Cookbook] By Jean-Pierre Moullé, Denise Lurton Moullé, Patricia Unterman (Foreword by) Cover Image
$35.00
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ISBN: 9781607745471
Published: Ten Speed Press - September 16th, 2014