Feeling hungry for something truly special? These 14 recipes bring the best of French cooking right into your kitchen. From rich, flavorful sauces to perfectly cooked meals, these dishes are the ...

To a girl growing up in western North Carolina, gougères might have sounded like something made in a fit of boredom with a sharp stick and winter gleanings. Sheri Castle’s culinary horizons have ...

“People ask us all the time how in the world we found ourselves, a mother-daughter duo from Arizona, living and working in the heart of Burgundy,” writes Marjorie Taylor. “It didn’t start with a road ...

One day in March of 1968, the cooking teacher Madeleine Kamman was leafing through the Times when she came upon a recipe that she considered rubbish. It was for what the paper’s then food editor, ...

THE THING IS, all the clichés you’ve heard about the south of France are true.” So begins “Le Sud” (April 23, Chronicle), the new cookbook from Rebekah Peppler, an American based in Paris. She goes on ...

For many, French cuisine is typified by indulgence, richness and a certain nose-in-the-air type of stuffiness. Expensive bistros, hifalutin food and immensely heavy, cream-and-butter-laden dishes, ...