French food and drink

How to make coq au riesling – recipe | Felicity Cloake

This is coq au vin as it’s traditionally prepared in Alsace, where a fruity, local white is more popular than rich, dark reds from farther south – though, in...

Beans means wines: how to match wines with pulses and beans

Pulses were among the first cultivated plants, grown since our hunter-gatherer forebears began developing agrarian communities around 11,000...

How to make the perfect flan (or French custard tart) – recipe | Felicity Cloake

Flan: not the cheese-and-tomato traybake served up for British school dinners or the Latin American creme caramel, but...

Ageing tastefully: the enduring appeal of old vine wines

“I call them ‘human wines’, not ‘natural wines’,” says renowned winemaker Salvo Foti as we stand in the...

How to make a classic French omelette – recipe | Felicity Cloake

It’s odd that in English we have only one word for a dish as multifarious as the omelette,...

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