Publisher Description

French cuisine is considered among the world's best, but its traditional ingredients like butter and cream aren't always appropriate for today's heart-healthy diets. New World Provence is a new-style French cookbook designed for contemporary audiences, featuring healthy, easy-to-find ingredients prepared using traditional French techniques tweaked with the home cook in mind.

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Subtitled, Modern French Cooking For Friends & Family. With 120 recipes and 32 colour photos.

Author Biography

Husband-and-wife team of Alessandra and Jean-Francis met in Nice, France, where they were both working as chefs. Alessandra is originally from Toronto, and comes from a family of cooks. They moved to Canada in 1992 and opened their first Provence restaurant in Vancouver in 1997; a second Provence opened in 2002. Husband-and-wife team of Alessandra and Jean-Francis met in Nice, France, where they were both working as chefs. Jean-Francis is from Marseilles, France, where he cooked at the restaurant run by his mother, Marseilles? famed Le Patalain. In addition to running both Provence restaurants, they are the proud parents of two children.

Review Quote

This new generation of French cuisine is aboiut simple, casual, robust flavours. Vancouver Sun

Description for Sales People

-Focus on contemporary French cooking, emphasis on new-world, i.e. North American, adaptations of traditional French recipes and techniques (as opposed to other French cookbooks that are predicated on food found in France). -The recipes have family components, given that the authors have two children, in addition to the fact that Jean-Francis's mother is a well-known chef in Marseilles, France and comes to Vancouver, Canada regularly to cook at her son's restaurants. There is a warm sense of three generations coming together that pervades the book. -The 32 full-page, full-color photographs are beautiful. -2-color throughout.

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