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Introducing My New Cookbook – French Comfort Food: Recipes of Savoie and the French Alps
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At long last, a one-year labor of love, I am releasing my new ECookbook, ‘French Comfort Food: Recipes of Savoie and the French Alps.‘
When I arrived in the French Alps two years ago I started looking for recipes and cookbooks from this region but I could not find a single cookbook about Savoyard or French Alps food in English. I found one out-of-print book about Savoie in English that had a few Savoyard recipes in it, but that’s where my luck ran out. So after months of searching, I decided I would just have to write one myself. I asked my French friends for recipes, searched the internet and went to the Savoie bookstores, and bought several cookbooks of Savoyard and French Alps recipes. Of course, they were all in French and used the metric measuring system so I had to start translating them into English, and changed them just enough to make them easier to cook or to find the ingredients. I cooked quite a few along the way and even took a few videos which are posted on this blog under the category: Recipes.
A year later I’m finished and I am offering the e-book on this blog and my new website: www.frenchcomfortfood.com, as an E-Cookbook download for $12.99. The E-Cookbook, entitled ‘French Comfort Food – Recipes of Savoie and the French Alps,’ includes 51 recipes from Savoie (Savoy) and the surrounding French Alps region. I chose the name ‘French Comfort Food’ because the cuisine of this region is exactly that: the main ingredients include potatoes, butter, cheeses, creams, hams and other wonderfully decadent things that Americans would consider in the category of comfort food.
As a bonus, you will also receive my E-Guidebook about Chambery, France. Chambery is the capital of Savoie and my home town. If you look in France guide books, you will rarely find more than a paragraph or two about the city. It is however a lovely Alpine city with a magical Old Town and an interesting history. Did you know that the Shroud of Turin was housed here for almost 100 years? If you plan to visit the region, this is a must-read guide book. If you just like to learn new things about France, you will find the history of Chambery fascinating. It’s yours free with the purchase of the French Alps E-Cookbook.Click here to buy the ECookbook and receive your free Chambery Guide Book. 
August 24th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Chefs would love to invest on this material. They want to present and have new and different recipes on the tables everyday. So that they would look professional on their fields. That would definitely be boring if chefs have the same recipes all week long and doesn’t have any new viands.