“ In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out. ”
If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
~ Alain Ducasse
Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in the kitchen when I was a boy was to make these Christmas logs.
