Many of my earliest memories are about food, I remember
making pancakes with Mémée, my great-grandmother, in her
house in Vitré when I was three years old. I remember long
childhood holidays on the island of Noirmoutier, going round
the markets in the early morning or cooking sardines on a
charcoal brazier on the sand. So many memories are
associated with the tastes and smells of cooking; so many
places, so many people can be brought to life using nothing
more than a handful of herbs or an old recipe.
Having sworn I would never write a cookbook, this is my
French cookbook. It contains most of the recipes that people
keep asking me for and which I have mentioned in Chocolat,
Blackberry Wine and Five Quarters of the Orange, They are
mostly family recipes from France and I have co-written the
book with Fran Warde the author of several excellent
cookbooks, who helped me make sense of all the ingredients
and quantities. It was terrific fun to write, although I
don't think I will be writing another one (although anything
is possible!) and I am donating all my share of the proceeds
to Médecins Sans Frontières.
A collaboration between a writer who loves food and a former
chef who loves writing about food, The French Kitchen
gathers together simple yet stylish recipes from the heart
of a French family.
Fran Warde trained as a chef, she worked at the Café Royale,
on an Australian prawn trawler, ran her own cookery school
and then moved into food styling and food writing. She is
the food editor of Red Magazine and the author of Food for
Friends, Eat, Drink, Live and Thirty Minute Italian. She
lives in West London with her husband and two children.
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