The Ethnic Paris Cookbook wins a Gourmand World Cookbook Award 2007

The Ethnic Paris Cookbook won Edouard Cointreau's GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARD 2007 for best illustrations cookbook in the US.
Winners in each country will compete against winners in the same category in other countries for The Best in the World. The results will be announced in May 2008 at the annual Gala Dinner event.
For more information go to www.cookbookfair.com

London blog

While doing some research on the internet we came across London-based Franka Philips' excellent blog on Caribbean food but not only. A passionate cook and amateur food historian, Franka spends her evenings (after her day job) experimenting with things like British chestnuts, adapting a dish from Trinidad that involves curried chataignes.We were honored that Franka reviewed the Ethnic Paris Cookbook and encourage anyone who is into the culinary melting pot that is Caribbean cuisine, to take a look at her blog. Click here for Franka's blog.

“THE ETHNIC PARIS COOKBOOK HAS A GREAT SELECTION OF ETHNIC DISHES WITH WELL-WRITTEN RECIPES AND WITTY AND HELPFUL DRAWINGS OF INGREDIENTS AND FINISHED DISHES."
-JACQUES PEPIN

Paris has become just as important on the ethnic cuisine circuit as London or New York, thanks to the mouth-watering dishes lovingly cooked, more often than not, by immigrants from former French colonies. Paris is now home to a multitude of immigrants from ex-colonies and protectorates that arrived in successive waves over the last 60 years: Senegalese, Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians and Lebanese, to name a few. The richness of these cultures provides a kaleidoscope of tastes and experiences captured in The Ethnic Paris Cookbook by Charlotte Puckette and Olivia Kiang-Snaije.
Complex flavors don’t necessarily mean complicated recipes. The step-by-step recipes in The Ethnic Paris Cookbook are easy to follow, so that a succulent chicken couscous or a Vietnamese Pho soup won't overwhelm the cook at home. We selected and adapted more than 100 recipes from internationally renowned chefs such as Fatema Hal of the Mansouria restaurant and Rougui Dia of Petrossian restaurant but also simply from food lovers, all transplanted from France’s former colonies and now established Parisians who retain their culture through their cuisine.
The Ethnic Paris Cookbook was illustrated by Paris-based artist, Dinah Diwan, and includes written portraits of people who provided recipes, addresses of top ethnic restaurants, corner shops, and markets in Paris.

France Today

Yamou's Chermoula from the Ethnic Paris Cookbook is in the Chef's Corner. Get Yamou's recipe and read an interview with Charlotte and Olivia on France Today's website here:


Chef's Corner

World Class Paris

"From Haute to Goat: Parisian cuisine as you've never tasted it" is the title of an article by Olivia in the May/June issue of Ryanair's new inflight magazine. Check it out and take on the challenge: spend four days in Paris eating your way around the world...
Click here to see the article in the on-line version of Ryanair's Magazine.

WH Smith in Paris

After our 10-day book tour in the US we had a book signing, along with our uber talented illustrator, Dinah Diwan, on home turf, in Paris. WH Smith, the English-language bookstore on rue de Rivoli hosted the event for us where we served ginger juice, from the Bushman cocktail recipe, banh mi sandwiches, and tomato and mango dip with plantains. WH Smith provided the much appreciated wine. All our wonderful friends came including journalist and author Mort Rosenblum, who introduced us. It was all the more heart-warming to see a number of the very special people who contributed to the book seated in the audience of over 50 people:
Mr. Akira Suzuki, who makes his own high-end Parisian tofu, Liza Soughayar and Karim Haidar, owners of Liza restaurant, Manola Jouanneaux, who contributed to the Southeast Asian chapter for Laotian recipes, Alexandre Bela Ola, cookbook author and owner of the pan-African restaurant, Moussa l'Africain, Anis Nacrour, diplomat and gourmet, who pulled out of his hat an original recipe for fish kibbeh, Henri Durimelle who contributed the Pork Colombo and Coconut and Lime Flan recipes from Guadeloupe, Leila Marouane, author, and Gina Diwan, designer.

Sleepless in Seattle

Here's Charlotte with a new friend at the Pike Place fish market in Seattle where we watched the fishmongers slinging Dungeness crabs, Tilapia and salmon. Valiantly combatting jet lag on the last leg of our book tour, we were literally sleepless in...
This lovely city on the Pacific welcomed us with a full page spread in The Seattle Times, we went on to host a cooking class; ethnic dishes from the book, evidemment, at Sur La Table, where we had a full house and lots of fun. We were also at Eagle Harbor Books on Bainbridge Island, a short ferry ride from Seattle. On our last morning we visited the international district, also known as Chinatown, where Americans from a confluence of Asian origins--Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Korean and many others--come together to make food and do business. We oggled produce and fish at the fabulous Uwajimaya supermarket and ate a few pork-filled Chinese steamed buns for breakfast.