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What to Eat in France: Crêpes Vonnassiennes

Published by Jonell Galloway + Wednesday, November 18, 2015 Permalink 0

What to Eat in France: Crêpes Vonnassiennes, Vonnas-style Potato Pancakes

Vonnas in the east of France is the home of the legendary Michelin-star chef Georges Blanc. He is best known for his Bresse chicken with cream and mushrooms. Traditionally, this chicken is eaten with potato pancakes. This recipe is inspired by Blanc’s mother, La Mère Blanc, who ran his restaurant before him. He learned to cook at her apron strings.

Vonnas is in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, known for poulet de Bresse chickens and poultry, frogs, Reblochon and Beaufort cheese, as well as gratin dauphinois, made with raw potatoes, thick cream and garlic, and pork products, plentiful in the bouchons, small restaurants found in Lyon.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, February 14, 2011

Published by Jonell Galloway + Monday, February 14, 2011 Permalink 0

by Chez Pim

Happy and successful cooking doesn’t rely only on know-how; it comes from the heart, makes great demands on the palate and needs enthusiasm and a deep love of food to bring it to life.–Georges Blanc, Ma Cuisine des Saisons

Georges Blanc is considered one of France’s greatest chefs. His restaurant, which he took over from his grandmother, known as “La Mère Blanc,” and mother, is located in the small village of Vonnas near Bourg-en-Bresse. Bresse is considered by most to produce the best chickens in France, and Blanc’s chicken in cream sauce is hailed as being the best in all of Burgundy. It is his grandmother’s recipe.