The Cook's Atelier: Recipes, Techniques, and Stories from Our French Cooking School

2019 IACP Cookbook Award for Food Photography and Styling
2019 IACP Cookbook Award for Design

The presentation cookbook from The Cook's Atelier—the worldwide culinary location and cooking school in Burgundy—is a delightfully shot asset on exemplary French food and an air annal of a family's life in an enchanting French town.

Mother and girl American expats Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini consistently longed for living in France. With a great deal of difficult work and a scramble of destiny, they understood this fantasy and helped to establish The Cook's Atelier, an observed French cooking school in the storybook town of Beaune, situated in the core of the Burgundy wine locale. Joining their expert foundations in food and wine, they draw in guests from all over with their receptive, friendly style of cooking.

Including in excess of 100 market-enlivened plans and 300 remarkable photos, this complete reference is an expansion of their cooking school, giving a refreshingly basic interpretation of French strategies and plans that each cook should know—fundamental butchery, basic stocks and sauces, baked good, dessert creams and sauces, and safeguarding, to give some examples. Occasional menus expand on this establishment, gathering plans that grandstand their new, vegetable-centered forms of immortal French dishes, for example,

Green Garlic Soufflé
Watermelon and Vineyard Peach Salad
Little Croques Madames
Sole Meunière with Beurre Blanc and Parsleyed Potatoes
Burned Duck Breast with Celery Root Puree and Chanterelles
Madeleines
Plum Tarte Tatin
Almond-Cherry Galette

Accounts of food and life in the town and the remarkable air of the atelier complement this individual cookbook. We can nearly hear the thumping of the copper pots, the murmur of the vintage coffee machine, and the joy around the table, as we meet a portion of the locale's best little ranchers and high quality makers and experience how Marjorie and Kendall's family cooperates to make this extraordinary spot.

About the Author

Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini are the mother-daughter duo and cofounders of The Cook’s Atelier, a French cooking school, culinary boutique, and wine shop in Beaune, France. This international culinary destination in the heart of French wine country has been featured in many publications, including Travel & Leisure, Fodor’s, Food & Wine, Condé Nast Traveler, and more.

What a wonderful book this is, a labor of love for sure, it's gorgeous and takes you beyond the authors' atelier. Anson Smart's photos really capture their beautiful world in Beaune, one of the prettiest spots in France. Their recipes are written with care and what surprised me was their unique concept for chapters. You expect seasonal cooking in French cookbooks, but their particular subchapters put you in the center of their lifestyle, like Jam Day, Dinner in the Wine Shop, Beaujolais Nouveau, Fireside Cooking. I unpacked my book this morning, finding the back cover photo facing me: two copper molds with souffles popping up, held by cooks in floury white aprons - I was hooked. You will be too. --Linny

I was delighted to hear Marjorie was coming out with a cookbook. I was able to take a class with her in Beaune. We met at the market place in the city's main square to shop for provisions and then spent the day cooking a most delicious memorable meal, with wine of course. What an experience.Her cookbook arrived today and I can't put it down. The photographs are beautiful and inspiring. Her story of how she began and introductions to some of her favorite food purveyors are a joy to read. The recipes not complicated and easy for any level cook. I can't decide which one to start with. Bon Appetit! Jeanne --Rebecca

This is one of those cookbooks that tells a beautiful story of the path to a dream. I believe this mother-daughter team is doing precisely what they were meant to do .Having visited Beaune a few years ago, I feel the photography captures the essence of this special place. It really is this beautiful. The stories of the local farmers, bakers, florists, vineyards, etc. is so important to the authenticity of this cookbook and to the success of this cooking school. I love the techniques section as most cookbooks do not go into this much detail . My husband and I actually cooked our first recipe from "The Cook's Atelier" yesterday, Pan-Seared Veal Chop with White Wine Jus. It was so easy to do and delicious - and we will be making more soon! This would make a great Mother's Day gift for those that love French cooking. --Rhonda Connick

The Cook's Atelier: Recipes, Techniques, and Stories from Our French Cooking School