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Catch of the day…

July 9, 2010 by Ullrich

…on a Chinese day weatherwise, it was cloudy but steaming hot in Paris today and I had to change my shirt three times. First time came this morning after I came back from the street market on Boulevard Richard Lenoir (you know it already, don’t you?). Have a look, it’s a weird selection: Seems, I had winter dreams while shopping (I mean: celery?). I’ll show you soon what I do with the cucumbers in the center, they’re of a special kind […]

Categories: good food, Paris, Savoy, Whatever Works • Tags: Fish, Food, France

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Re-thinking the cheese sandwich…

March 28, 2010 by Ullrich

…that’s what my 5-year-old son has done today. He came up with the solution pictured below, combining five of the best French cheeses on one slice of bread, thus creating a culinary Tour de France: What do we have here? From the top: a creamy Valençay made of raw goat milk, then a piece of Mimolette followed by a bar of rich Beaufort d’alpage, a piece of Tomme de Savoie (both from the Alps) and finally a cube of Neufchâtel from […]

Categories: Bread, Savoy, signature dish, Whatever Works • Tags: Beaufort

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Like any French region, Savoy is a miracle…

March 2, 2010 by Ullrich

…when it comes to great local food of all kinds. It would take some time to draw a map of products and producers here. Back home in Paris I have a book of 250 or so pages only describing the traditional delicacies of this mountainous strip of land. Here in the Alps, you can find for instance a great variety of locally made (Italian-style) noodles, a reminder of the colourful history of the Duché, or county, bounced back and forth between Italy […]

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The real cheese challenge…

March 1, 2010 by Ullrich

…made my dinner tonight. We had a Fondue Savoyarde at 1800 meters above sea level and surrounded by snowy mountain peaks – you can’t get tweedier than this. The famous Fondue, a Swiss invention, is French food for people who work 12 hours a day lifting iron bars or half cows (skiing is just a modern option). It really is a heavy-weight delicacy and you’d better not count calories while enjoying it. The picture below, taken two hours ago, is somewhat […]

Categories: Dinner, Savoy, signature dish • Tags: Beaufort

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Eating fish in the Alps…

February 28, 2010 by Ullrich

…doesn’t really make sense, don’t you think? It’s the when-in-Rome-thing. Why would you want to eat, say, oysters on a snowy mountain summit? While you have a perfect local cheese at hand? Or a chunk of smoked bacon from a century-old supplier close by? Or some crude ham dried in the fresh air 1500 meters above sea level? Well, I tell you why: if you only stick to local products in a region like French Savoy, you’ll gain ten pounds […]

Categories: Dinner, Savoy, seafood, Whatever Works

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Savoy is a region, not a hotel…

February 27, 2010 by Ullrich

…even if you haven’t heard about it yet. I’ve arrived here tonight, in lovely Les Saisies, a village very close to the Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest mountain, and I will spend a week here skiing – and eating, of course. This is the land of Beaufort and Reblochon, just to mention two fabulous cheeses, there’s some decent wine to drink, some original saucissons to chew. Tonight, I was happily taking pictures during dinner already – just to learn back in my […]

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