About Us

Welcome to my French Food and Wine Blog!

Websites:

http://www.american-in-france.com

http://www.french-alps-tours.com

http://www.france-and-beyond-photoblog.com

Biography

Unlike many Americans, I never dreamed about living in France. In fact, I’m an Italophile, having studied in Italy as a college student, vacationed there for 20 years and lived there from 1998-2000. But as fate would have it, I fell in love with a Frenchman in 2005 who I met during a train ride in Provence. After 2.5 years of a long distance relationship between Los Angeles and Chambery, I sold my house, ended my thriving and successful consulting business, and dragged my poor cats to Chambery at the ripe old age of 49 (me that is, not my cats). Needless to say, it has been an adventure ever since.

The focus of this blog is to provide information about French Food, French Cooking/Recipes, and French Wine. I hope you will find it informational and entertaining.

French Alps Cookbook: When I arrived in the French Alps I started looking for recipes and cookbooks from this region and 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 when I found a slight variation made them easier to cook or to find the ingredients. A year later I’m finished and I am offering the book on this blog and my Video Diary blog, www.american-in-france.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.

You’ll find some of my videos in which I cook recipes from the e-cookbook, as well as French cuisine recipes in general, under the ‘French Food Videos’ page.

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.

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If you would like to contact me, email me at:  frenchalpstours(at)yahoo(dot)com

Thanks for joining me in this French Food and Wine adventure.

Cynthia