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Cassoulet with Sylvie Bigar
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Cassoulet with Sylvie Bigar

Where is it from the cassoulet? Well, that's a really good question because depending on who you ask, you're gonna get a different answer. I mean, in general, I think everybody agrees that the cassoulet which you know we need maybe to stay exactly what is it?

International food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and is based in New York City. She is fluent in French, English, and Italian. Sylvie co-authored Chef Daniel Boulud's definitive and personal cookbook, Daniel: My French Cuisine. Sylvie's many adventures have led her to explore the childhood home and native French province of Colette, her favorite author; the apple orchards of Ireland, the banks of the Oum Er-Rbia River in Morocco, the remote Swiss village of Mund with its seductive saffron, the Austro-Hungarian culinary revival in Prague, and Southwestern France on a long-time quest for the perfect cassoulet.

Today’s topic on Fabulously Delicious is all about the cassoulet and we will find out what’s in it, where’s it from, variations of and its origin story.

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Languedoc Wines with Carrie Dykes
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Languedoc Wines with Carrie Dykes

What is the largest region of wine-making in France? It actually produces more wine than the whole of the USA. It’s today’s topic the Languedoc wines.

Carrie Dykes is a freelance wine writer that has written articles for Medium, and Lonely Planet to name a couple of platforms. Carrie studied wine and specializes in European wines.

Today’s topic on Fabulously Delicious is all about the wines from the Languedoc region and we find out from Carrie what makes them so special.

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Summer Series - French Wine
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Summer Series - French Wine

In today's Fabulously Delicious episode we enjoy summer by revisiting season one and the fabulously topics we talked about. So this week its Burgundy Wine and Nouveau Beaujolais with Preston Mohr and Romain Teyteau.

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it, and love it. We chat with Franco foodies here in France and around the world. 

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Summer Series - French Patisseries
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Summer Series - French Patisseries

In today's Fabulously Delicious episode we enjoy summer by revisiting season one and the fabulously topics we talked about. So this week its Macarons and Choux Pastry with Molly Wilkinson and Ann Mah.

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it, and love it. We chat with Franco foodies here in France and around the world. 

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Mont D’Or with Patrick Ambrosio
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Mont D’Or with Patrick Ambrosio

In today's Fabulously Delicious episode we chat with a cheesemonger in the US all about the wonderful French cheese Mont D'Or. Patrick Ambrosio was a musician who trained to become a chef and then a cheesemonger. Now he's the expert on all things cheese and specifically today Mont D'Or cheese. 

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it, and love it. We chat with Franco foodies here in France and around the world. 

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Violets du Toulouse with Jessica Hammer
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Violets du Toulouse with Jessica Hammer

Flowers in culinary use are not unique to French cuisine but used around the world. In France, though it's taken to a whole different level with everything from syrups, tossed in salads, cremes, confit, sugared and candied. Today's episode of Fabulously Delicious is about one of those flowers used in cooking here in France the Violets du Toulouse. 

Talking to us about the Violets du Toulouse is a resident of Toulouse and fellow food tour guide Jessica Hammer. We chat with Jessica about every the violet as well as life in Toulouse and growing up on a blueberry farm. 

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it, and love it. We chat with Franco foodies here in France and around the world. 

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Mères Lyonnaises with Lucy Vanel
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Mères Lyonnaises with Lucy Vanel

It's international women's day today and I'm celebrating this wonderful day by talking with Lucy Vanel about a subject that I love in a city that I love, the Mères lyonnaises. These women are throughout history and even today are a really important part of France, French culture, and most importantly French cuisine. 

Lucy is someone I meet in Lyon in 2014. She has been living in Lyon for many years now and is a fabulous chef with cooking classes in Lyon. Lucy is celebrating the Mères Lyonnaises along with Tanisha Townsend and Rosa Jackson, previous guests with an event online. This event supports women in the kitchen so check out the link below for more details. 

https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/in-the-steps-of-eugenie-brazier-on-line-cooking-demonstration-w-wine-pair-tickets-268065259407  

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it and love it. We chat with Franco foodies here in France and around the world. 

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Paris Restaurants with Alexander Lobrano
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Paris Restaurants with Alexander Lobrano

Restaurants in Paris have a vast history that has been influential on French cuisine and cuisines and restaurants around the world. Currently, the city like many has been through a pandemic, and what effect has this had on the cities restaurants. To talk to us about all things past and present about the Paris restaurant scene is acclaimed, James Beard award-winning author Alexander Lobrano. 

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it and love it. We chat with Franco foodies here in France and around the world. 

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Canelés with Katherine Burns
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Canelés with Katherine Burns

Canelés de Bordeaux is the little jewels of French pastry. Delicious custard-like interior with a wonderful dark crust flavored with vanilla and rum. Who wouldn't want one? But what's the history of the canelé and how do you make them? Well joining me on Fabulously Delicious today is someone that loves French food so much they rival me in many ways. Cookbooks are a passion, cooking as well. Katherine Burns might be a commercial real estate agent by day but she is an expert in French food by night and on the weekends, and lunchtimes, and breakfast I'm sure. Katherine is here to tell us all about Canelés. 

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it and love it. We chat with Franco foodies here in France and around the world. 

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Onion Soup with Beth Fuller
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Onion Soup with Beth Fuller

Onion Soup or Soupe du onion as the French would say is a classic French dish that I love to make. So today it's the topic of our Fabulously Delicious episode today and who better to talk all things onion than someone who loves it as much as I do. Beth Fuller is a fabulous food photographer with a love of French food and all things Onion Soup.

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it, and love it. We chat with Franco foodies here in France and around the world.

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Bocuse D’Or with Philip Tessier
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Bocuse D’Or with Philip Tessier

This week is part two of our chat with Philip Tessier where we talk all things Bocuse D'Or as well as find out a bit more about my French food icon Paul Bocuse. 

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it, and love it. We chat with Francofoodies here in France and around the world. 

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Chef Profile - Philip Tessier
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Chef Profile - Philip Tessier

Today's episode of Fabulously Delicious is a chef profile on acclaimed chef Philip Tessier.  We talk about learning to be a chef straight out of school in the US to working for acclaimed chefs like Roger Verge, Thomas Keller, and Eric Ripert before turning 25. This is a two-part episode and in the second part, we will talk about all things Bocuse D'Or one of the world's best food awards.  

Fabulously Delicious is all about French food and French cuisine the people that make it, cook it, taste it, write about it, photograph it, and love it. We chat with Francofoodies here in France and around the world.

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