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Cuisine Niçoise — sun-kissed cooking from the French Riviera

  • December 15, 2013
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes
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Author, Hillary Davis, making her home on the French Riviera for 11 years (specifically in the village of Bar-sur-Loup), is the perfect person to bring us the knowledge and conviviality of the Niçoise culture and style of cooking in Nice, France and its surrounding countryside — healthy, fresh, and local.

I always adore cookbooks with stories, and Cuisine Niçoise whisks you along fresh, breezy walks through villages and plunks you right down at each beautifully composed table by way of a charming and intimate story introducing each recipe. Cuisine Niçoise captures the lure of the diverse local ingredients and the magical sense of place: a favorite restaurant in Nice; the jolt of a glass of Pernod; the smell of fresh rosemary; and all the enchanting French kitchens and cooks who inhabit them. 

The photography is nothing short of sumptuous and the recipes a cacaphony of ingredients that we are familiar, yet unfamiliar with as they come together in dishes that you can’t wait to make — Vegetable Soup over Toast with Poached Egg is on my mind.

I have no doubt that the French, in particular, are proud to exclaim: très chic, très hip, très sexy, and très délicieux over Hillary Davis’s, Cuisine Niçoise —in the spirit of this lovely book, we American’s can say that too.

available now on Amazon.com

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