French Alps Cookbook
Receive both my Chambery Guide Ebook and my ‘French Comfort Food: Recipes of Savoie and the French Alps’ cookbook. You can have both books for $7.99.
Finding specific information about Chambery is very difficult. In fact, France guide books typically devote less than a page to the city. Additionally, cookbooks on Savoie (Savoyard or Savoy) cuisine are all but nonexistent in English. I searched long and hard for French Alps and Savoie cookbooks in English when I moved here and found only one book with a few Savoie recipes in English which was last printed 30 years ago. So I’ve spent the last year collecting recipes from friends and buying Savoie cookbooks in French, and slowly and painstakingly translating 51 recipes into English. I even tried quite a few along the way and made videos of making some of the recipes too. This cookbook is unique in that these are truly French recipes in the sense that only four have been Americanized or ‘fusioned’. The rest are authentic Savoyard. I made suggestions in the recipes for substitutes when I felt the ingredients would be difficult to find in other countries. The cookbook contains many of the specialties of the French Alps region, and also includes a few of my favorite French recipes not specific to Savoie.
Here’s a sampling of the recipes in the cookbook:
- Endives Blue Cheese Crumble
- Savoie Brioche
- Crozets with Beaufort Cheese Gratin
- Orange Gratin (with Carrots)
- Pumpkin Sage Polenta
- Tartiflette
- Diots in White Wine Sauce
- Steak Savoyard Mincavie
- Morel Souffle
- Savoyard Fondue
- Turkey with Nuts and Reblochon
- Chartreuse Souffle Pie
- Wild Berry Confiture (Preserves)
- Cassis Liqueur
- Savoyard Trout
- Le Jambon Savoyard
- Tarte au Citron
- Cherry Clafoutis
- Fruit Galette
- Wild Blackberry & Cream Scones
- And many more…
Read a review of one of the recipes from Linda in Los Angeles:
Savoyarde Potato Gratin – ” This is absolutely delicious. For you serious garlic lovers, add at least an additional 2-3 cloves of garlic. Yes, as Cynthia suggested, this tasted better the next day and that is when I served it. It gives the flavors a chance to meld. Thanks Cynthia for such a great assortment of Savoy recipes. I look forward to trying more.”
Remember: With your purchase, you will receive a copy of my E-Cookbook, French Comfort Food, and my Chambery Guide Ebook.
Thank you for your support! Enjoy the books.
You can by the book by contacting me at: frenchalpstours(at)yahoo(dot)com. I only accept Paypal, but you can set up Paypal to debit your credit cards. Please contact me and I will give you instructions on how to pay and then I will send you the ebooks by email.
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