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Mimi Thorisson’s cookbooks are a marvelous ménage of memories combined with the current everyday experiences of food, family, and friends. With “French Country Cooking: Meals and Moments from a Village in the Vineyards”, readers are once again treated to the epicurean expertise of Ms. Thorisson accented by the beautiful color photos captured by her husband, Oddur. In this book, the family and their dogs move to the small village of St. Yazans in the Medoc region of France. The historic chateau which becomes their new home bears a rich legacy as a former renowned hotel and restaurant. The locale of the chateau offers a bounty of resplendent resources as friendships are made with “winemakers, hunters, vegetable growers, and local gourmands”. Each new find inspires creativity in the kitchen and a growing sense of familial contentment. Reading the book, savoring the recipes and the photos, and dreaming of such a life in the French countryside is glorious feast for lovers of good food and the “good life”. Here is a sampler of the wonderful recipes you will find: “Fig and Pistachio Cake”; “Rhubarb and Raspberry Cordial”; “Pumpkin Quiche with Bacon”; “Cassoulet”; “Black Peppered Filets Mignons with Cognac”; “Roast Chicken with Chestnuts and Cabbage”; “Wine Harvest Pot-Au-Feu”; “Ham and Spring Onion Omelette”; “Wise Guy Chicken”; “Garlic Potato Chips”; “Salted Butter Chocolate Cake”; “Walnut Tart”; and “Orange Blossom Cake”. MIMI THORISSON is the author of A Kitchen in France and Manger, a blog devoted to French cooking and her life in the French countryside. She is the host of the French cooking shows La Table de Mimi and Les Desserts de Mimi. She lives with her husband, their children, and their smooth fox terriers in an old château in St Yzans, in the Médoc region of France.

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gincam | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 30, 2019 |
Mimi Thorisson and her husband were house-hunting without much success until their realtor took them to a house that was nothing like what they thought they wanted. So of course, because this is how life goes, it was perfect. Perfectly run-down and in disrepair, but perfect in so many other ways, too. A big, sprawling house for her and her big, sprawling family. Its slightly and delightfully semi-scandalous origins and its history as a B&B just added luster. Of course, they opened a restaurant.

While the first recipe is a gorgeous apple pie, the first chapter of recipes is full of cakes! In celebration of l’heure du goûter when folks enjoy their cake and eat it too, a special time of day, usually after school for a tasty reward for the day’s work. Thorisson is not hiding dessert at the end, but front and center.

Thorisson is not doctrinaire about the lines on the map of French cuisine and includes recipes from other cuisines. The emphasis is on fresh, seasonal ingredients and on accenting the natural flavors with spices and herbs that enhance the natural flavors, rather than transform the flavors. She points out you can make steak and potatoes anywhere, but it was invented in France and no one does it better.

Mimi Thorisson is the sort of person who might inspire envy. She is extraordinarily beautiful with a clutch of seven children, an amazing home, a successful restaurant and a life of travel and adventure. Worse, she makes it seem easy, but you can read between her lighthearted descriptions of cleaning up and repairing their home and the haps and mishaps of opening their restaurant and recognize that her success and happiness come from the family working hard together to succeed. There is not one gram of smug self-congratulation in this warm-hearted book that celebrates the history of her home, but also her neighbors and friends. Recipes that came from neighbors are credited with little stories about them.

The photos are taken by Thorisson’s husband Oddur, an Icelandic professional photographer. They are stunning, infused with light. I think the entire family is captured working in the kitchen or restaurant and even the family pets are there. There is a lot of love in those photos. The food is delicious looking and the photos do not have that over-saturated appearance that is common in cookbooks. When the skin on a chicken is pale because it was simmered, not roasted, as in the poule-au-pot, it stays pale. The picture of the Country Terrine is downright frightening though, that hornet is huge! The fashion of strewn tabletops continues, but with a welcome restraint. I did not once think with pity of the poor person who had to clean up after the photos.

All in all, this is a lovely book that is mostly about the delicious, rustic foods of rural France, but it also about a lovely family who are living their dream with joy, gratitude, and love. It is a book about a style of living. So there are lots of photos of the countryside, the raw ingredients, the family. Fewer photos and more recipes might please some folks, but I enjoyed it just the way it is.

I received a copy of French Country Cooking from Blogging for Books.

★★★★

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Tonstant.Weader | 2 andra recensioner | Nov 13, 2016 |
I loved this cookbook! Firstly, its big and beautiful, just like a good coffee table book should be. The recipes were mouthwatering with clear cooking instructions and lots of gorgeous photos. Many of the recipes are recognizable from standard French cooking but, the recipes in this book often have a little twist which makes them more interesting to modern cooks.

I also liked the organization of the book. The fact that it begins with a section titled Goûter full of cakes and other afternoon pastries just whets the appetite for more. But in my opinion, what makes this book really good is the story the author tells throughout. It's so interesting and full of memorable characters that I couldn't help thinking that it would make a very entertaining film. Really I think No. 1 Rue de Loudenne reminded me of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence film because it seems to have all the elements, location, characters, good food and lots of fun. I don't think this is something that can be said about most cookbooks. So if you are looking for some great recipes but also some entertaining reading about how one family bought an old manor house and turned it into a restaurant, bringing back some of it's infamous past then this in one you will not want to miss.

Thanks to Blogging for Books for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.
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SUS456 | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 24, 2016 |
5 out of 5 stars for A Kitchen in France A Year of Cooking in My Farmhouse Mimi Thorisson:

From Publisher: With beguiling recipes and sumptuous photography, A Kitchen in France transports readers to the French countryside and marks the debut of a captivating new voice in cooking.

When Mimi Thorisson and her family moved from Paris to a small town in out-of-the-way Médoc, she did not quite know what was in store for them. She found wonderful ingredients—from local farmers and the neighboring woods—and, most important, time to cook. Her cookbook chronicles the family’s seasonal meals and life in an old farmhouse, all photographed by her husband, Oddur. Mimi’s convivial recipes—such as Roast Chicken with Herbs and Crème Fraîche, Cèpe and Parsley Tartlets, Winter Vegetable Cocotte, Apple Tart with Orange Flower Water, and Salted Butter Crème Caramel—will bring the warmth of rural France into your home.

About the Author: MIMI THORISSON is the author of Manger, a blog devoted to French cooking that was named Saveur’s Best Regional Food Blog in April 2013. After a career in television and having lived in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Reykjavik, and Paris, she settled with her photographer husband, their five young children, her two older stepchildren, and the family’s fourteen dogs in a farmhouse in Médoc. She is the star of the cooking shows La Table de Mimi and the upcoming Les Desserts de Mimi, both on Canal in France.

“When Mimi Thorisson, the author of this book and her family moved from Paris to a small town in out-of-the-way Medoc, she did not quite know what was in store for them.” What she experienced is this cookbook.

Having a French background myself, and having visited this wonderful country of known for its beauty, culture, food and history, more than once, I’m always interested when I find a new book on French cooking. When I saw this one, I knew I had to get it. It intrigued me. When I received it, I wasn’t prepared for the sheer size of it. It is a big, heavy book and at 304pgs beautiful photography, many of them are of the prepared dishes. Some are of the author shopping of preparing the dishes. Some of the photos are delicious enough to eat right off the page. The chapters are broken down into the four seasons and the recipes are set off into seasonal cooking. Mimi has the background to write this book. At the urging of her friends and family, before she left Paris, she began a food blog which contained recipes for French home cooking in English. Being half-Chinese and half French, she grew up in Hong Kong. Her mother is French. She spent her holidays in Paris or in the south of France with her mother’s family. There with them, she was introduced to French cooking. Her maternal grandmother and aunt were terrific cooks, and “every day meant a feast.”

The recipes are many and varied from the starters to the main course and ending with dessert. There are soups, and meats with chicken, duck, and lamb, fish and the list goes on. There are dishes for the vegetarian and vegan or those that can easily be modified. Some are easy while others are time consuming. Overall, there isn’t any recipe in this book that can’t be made by anyone, even someone that never cooked before. Some of the recipes call for a dozen items or more, while some call for half that. Her recipes are clear and easy to follow. You can tell that she wrote it with the reader in mind.

Ready to get your mouth watering and follow it up with a meal that will have your taste buds applauding and you stomach yelling that it’s fantastic, but please I can’t handle anymore. Then grab a copy of this book for yourself or as a gift for someone you know. It is sure to be enjoyed by readers, cooks, and diners alike. Take a trip through the French countryside without leaving the comfort of your home. You’ll be glad you did. This is the first trip I didn’t have to pay for and I loved it!

FTC Disclaimer: I received this book at no charge in exchange for an honest and fair review.

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