New Release From

Hillary Davis

Available to order now……from the author of French Comfort Food, Cuisine Nicoise, Le French Oven, French Desserts, and The Hamptons Kitchen.

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A Word About The Author

Hillary Davis is a cookbook author, contributing journalist, cooking instructor, and lecturer.

After the critical success of her first book, A Million A Minute, a book agent who knew about Hillary’s love of all things food approached her and convinced her that a book about the Michelin star chefs working in London at the time would be a project they should start working on producing.

Hillary concurred and spent the better part of a year working gratis in the kitchens of Michelin starred chefs in London, peeling mountais of potatoes and whisking mounds of hollandaise in return for being allowed to spend time with the chefs in their kitchens for research for her cookbook proposal. Although the book never came to fruition, the long hours spent learning, interviewing the front room and sommeliers, and interviewing the Michelin star chefs (Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay, Nobu, Jean-Christophe Novelli, Bruno Loubet, Pierre Koffman, and others) served her well.

Later, from her home in the south of France, Hillary wrote her first cookbook, Cuisine Nicoise. Davis lived in France for over thirteen years, two in Paris and over eleven in the south of France in the hilltop village of Bar- sur-Loup on the French Riviera. Cuisie Nicoise celebrated the healthy style of cooking prepared in the countryside around her home near Nice. She learned to cook this relatively unknown cuisine from neighbors in her village, friends, chefs, and a host of characters she met and talks about in her book.

In French Comfort Food she went further afield on a delicious journey throughout the many regions of France to re-discover the msot loved meals that French families prepare every day at home. She has written two more French cookbooks: Le French Oven, French Desserts, and a cookbook about the cusine of the Hamptons called The Hamptons Kitchen. Hillary also writes a popular weekly Substack newsletter called DestinationFood.

The ability of food to bring people together in a spirit of sharing and giving inspires her writing.

Hillary has a degree in economics from Columbia University in New York and a graduate degree in international relations from Cambridge University in England. She currently lives in the Hamptons, New York City and lives several months a year in France.

Hillary Davis

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Complete Series

Smoke And The Heart

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What Readers Are Saying

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From Publishers Weekly:

In this quick and approachable collection, Davis (French Comfort Food) draws on her 13 years in Paris and the South of France to present easy and affordable French home cooking. Her casual approach relies on shortcuts, such as a store-bought crust for fluffy cauliflower and cheese quiche, premade crepes for “last-minute” grand marnier crepes suzette, and Laughing Cow cheese to lend creaminess to Laughing Cow zucchini soup.

Classic “haute cuisine” dishes are abridged and made less intimidating, including instant pot beef bourguignon, easy whole duck a l’orange (which still requires an overnight marinade), and coq au vin reimagined as a quick chicken bake with a stove-top wine sauce.

Though traditionalists may balk, there’s no denying Davis’s efficiency. Her encouraging instructions make even more complex dishes seem simple, including the festive salad dubbed “A Wreath You Can Eat” and ingenious “beef on a string with horseradish sauce.” Other quick takes include a one-pot salmon in parchment with capers and lemon and weeknight halibut in basil cream. This accessible approach to everyday French fare will appeal to cooks at all skill levels. (Mar.)

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