Looking for a book on Provençal style cooking(or even a blog)

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So as I sit here on my days off before school, i have been asking myself "how do I want to cook" "what is cooking" "what is the goal of my cooking" "what do I want to make my specialty" I have
decided to investigate southern french cuisine, I tend to gravitate towards lighter french style dishes and love to use local ingredients, so here I am looking for a resource. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, I have numerous books on french cooking and a few on California cuisine and am looking for something a little more traditional, not le guide cullinare or la repitoire level but anything 1980's + would defiantly have some solid value, I can read french so if the book/website is in french that is fine.

Thanks in advance,

One confused cook aka Evan
 
First thing to do is plant a box of 10-12 herbs in small planters. :)
 
There's a guy on youtube called Bruno Albouze. He was a three-star michelin pastry chef and does a lot of French cooking on his youtube channel, both fine dining and more rustic stuff like cassoulet and ratatouille. Maybe not exactly what you were looking for though.

[video=youtube;dOZdDqhqSTY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZdDqhqSTY[/video]

[video=youtube;lrFN1xdS4kM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrFN1xdS4kM[/video]
 
DamageInc said:
There's a guy on youtube called Bruno Albouze. He was a three-star michelin pastry chef and does a lot of French cooking on his youtube channel, both fine dining and more rustic stuff like cassoulet and ratatouille. Maybe not exactly what you were looking for though.

[video=youtube;dOZdDqhqSTY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOZdDqhqSTY[/video]

[video=youtube;lrFN1xdS4kM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrFN1xdS4kM[/video]
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I am very very familiar... I didn't know he was a three star chef though, this guy is stunning.
 
Yeah being head of pastry under Alain Ducasse in Paris usually means you can whip up a nice plate of beans.
 
There are two French cookbooks called “the cuisine of the sun” from the late seventies. Ones by miriellle Johnston and the others by roger verge. I like the Johnston one better as broad overview. She’s got one of the best recipes ever for stuffed breast of veal, easily worth the one cent cost of the book from Amazon.

Roger verge has another book dedicated to vegetables; I’m usually not big on 3 star restaurants cookbooks but I love his vegetable recipes. It’s called “vegetables in the French style”

Patricia wells also did a book called at home in Provence. It’s more what she cooks in Provence than an authoritative overview of the cuisine. Not a bad book though.

My moneys on the Johnston book.
 
rickbern said:
There are two French cookbooks called “the cuisine of the sun” from the late seventies. Ones by miriellle Johnston and the others by roger verge. I like the Johnston one better as broad overview. She’s got one of the best recipes ever for stuffed breast of veal, easily worth the one cent cost of the book from Amazon.

Roger verge has another book dedicated to vegetables; I’m usually not big on 3 star restaurants cookbooks but I love his vegetable recipes. It’s called “vegetables in the French style”

Patricia wells also did a book called at home in Provence. It’s more what she cooks in Provence than an authoritative overview of the cuisine. Not a bad book though.

My moneys on the Johnston book.
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Thank you. I'm familiar with Roger verge, I first stumbled upon him in french chefs cooking by Michael Buller. I'll definitely check out Mr Johnston's book. It's only a few dollars on Amazon used and looks really interesting
 
Have a look at La cuisinière Provençale. It is a marvellous lexique of over a 1000 recipes. Perfect for what you are looking for, resources! The recipes aren’t beginners friendly, meaning not extremely detailed with exact measurements. But it has all the classics and extra from Provence.
Je suis persuadé que tu vas trouver ce que tu recherches dans ce recueil !
And for less then 15 bucks... welll worth it!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/2903963053/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
 
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SharpWheels said:
Have a look at La cuisinière Provençale. It is a marvellous lexique of over a 1000 recipes. Perfect for what you are looking for, resources! The recipes aren’t beginners friendly, meaning not extremely detailed with exact measurements. But it has all the classics and extra from Provence.
Je suis persuadé que tu vas trouver ce que tu recherches dans ce recueil !
And for less then 15 bucks... welll worth it!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/2903963053/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20
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Thank you and no worries. I ain't scared
 
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McMan said:
Speaking of Ducasse...
Check out "The Provence of Alaine Ducasse"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2...32473&linkId=8371ae3a1bafedc478c0424b9a5bdb9b
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I have this book and it's an interesting read but might not be what you're looking for it has sections on restaurants, markets as well as few recipes and descriptions of ingredients.
Not Provence but not far geographically, I really like Lucios Ligurian kitchen
https://www.lucios.com.au/store/#!/Lucios-Ligurian-Kitchen/p/59190155
Maybe you can find it locally
 
SE provence and liguria are historically linked,
it was the old dutch of savory,
worth looking into for sure !
 
Saw someone mention Ducasse. The Flavors is France is one of my favorite cookbooks
 
More story than cookbook but some good insights "a year in Provence" by Peter mayle
Also even though it's SW France some of the same ethos is there "the cooking of Southwest France" Paula wolfert
 
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