“ If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London. ”
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.
In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.
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.
