A Kitchen in France

MIMI THORISSON is the author of French Country Cooking and Manger, a blog devoted to French cooking and her life in the French countryside. She is the host of the French cooking shows La Table de Mimi and Les Desserts de Mimi. She lives with her husband, their children, and their smooth fox terriers in an old château in St Yzans, in the Médoc region of France.

A Kitchen in France encourages us to cook together and share good food and wine with people we love.
--The Wall Street Journal
 
This highly personal and friendly book encourages readers to really appreciate ingredients, and time spent in the kitchen and at the table.
--Cherry Bombe

Equally enthralling as her recipes is Thorisson s seemingly effortless conjuring of a rustic dream life, often exquisitely illustrated by her husband s photography
Vogue

If you ve ever read Mimi Thorisson s blog, Manger, you know what it is to envy her life, full of long walks through the French countryside with her children and seeming endless brigade of dogs, which end at home with bushels full of produce that she effortlessly turns into feasts, all cassoulets and tarts and roasts and good wine to wash it all down. But if you re going to buy one aspirational cookbook this fall, it s Mimi s because you ll actually take on many of her recipes, and absorb a bit of her style of entertaining in the process.
Food52.com

Mimi Thorisson s picture-perfect life would almost be too idyllic to bear if she weren t so generous: This lovely home cook willingly shares culinary secrets in her popular blog of two and a half years, Manger, along with a host of classic French recipes in a brand-new cookbook, A Kitchen in France. She leads her life with enviable style, from mothering seven children and wrangling the family s 14 dogs to elegantly serving up a cognac-infused coq au vin.
InStyle

"You'll want to live in Mimi Thorisson's A Kitchen In France. The beautifully shot book includes decadent dishes such as butternut squash gratin and crepes with salted-butter caramel."
Self
 
In this warm and inviting collection, Thorisson brings readers into her farmhouse in Médoc [W]hile the appeal of this collection rests firmly on its recipes, the incredible photographs capture life in the French countryside. Sidebars on everything from dried grapevines and wine to