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:

http://www.ryanairmag.com/story/paris-food/54/1/

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.

Sun in a Cool City

Modern architecture and Minneapolis converge in Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Philip Johnson's buildings. We basked in the sun in this vibrant city after appearing on NBC's affiliate, KARE 11. In the evening we did a book signing at The Bookcase of Wayzata, on nearby Lake Minnetonka, former home of the Dakota Indians. It's a treasure of a bookshop right on the lake where well travelled readers were more than ready to take on Paris' ethnic cuisine.

Click here to see a review in the June issue of Minneapolis-St.Paul magazine

The Voice in Cleveland

We did a book signing at the vast and well-stocked Joseph-Beth bookstore just outside the city where the word rock 'n' roll was coined in 1951. One of the best things about Cleveland was NPR's "Around Noon" host, Dee Perry's velvet voice. Click here to listen to the interview.

La Grande Pomme

Arriving in New York City was a little like coming home; we had both lived here at various times in our lives. Our plane was one of the last to land before a storm that went on for several days and left hundreds stranded at various airports around the northeast. Our first event was at the independent bookstore, Labyrinth Books on 112th street. Friends came, the book sold out and everyone was happy. We experienced television (and make-up) for the first time when interviewed for ABC at Jean-Georges Vongerichten's restaurant, Spice Market. We also did radio interviews with stations from Sacramento to Florida via Indiana, all very different in character. It was still raining when we left the city...

In the Press - Newsweek - The Good Life

International Edition March 5th, 2007

Food: City of Ethnic Delights
Eating in Paris often conjures thoughts of fresh baguettes, Camembert and steak au poivre. But there's so much more than that. The authoritative new "The Ethnic Paris Cookbook" (published by DK) not only provides great recipes but also leads readers to restaurants and specialty food shops in remote corners of the city. Dine on the rich, nutty "CEO's Chicken" from Cameroon at Moussa l'Africain, an airy restaurant that features live African music. The Lebanese Rimal offers some of the city's best mezzé, small plates of hot and cold appetizers, and homemade, rose-flavored ice cream. The trendy Dar Moha makes a divine Moroccan tagine, a fragrant stew of simmered meat and vegetables, often with dried fruits. Vietnamese, Chinese and other Asian cuisines are also heavily represented; La Baie d'Halong serves the popular Bo Bun, a Vietnamese salad of rice vermicelli, meat strips and fresh greens. For a Japanese dessert to rival even the best French pastries, try the green-tea eclair at Sadaharu Aoki. Bon appétit!

Hot Type

See The Ethnic Paris Cookbook in Vanity Fair's April 2007 issue in Hot Type

Super Review from Superchef

By JULIETTE ROSSANT
Eating in Paris means French food, right?
Wrong. To prove it Charlotte Puckette and Olivia Kiang-Snaije have written The Ethnic Paris Cookbook: Bringing the French Melting Pot Into Your kitchen (DK 2007). That's right: eating in Paris means eating the food of France's former colonies, from Senegal to Morocco to Vietnam. This book is a guide to the food of these various cuisines as they are recreated in Paris, and a guide to the restaurants, shops and cafes...
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More great reviews...

The Ethnic Paris Cookbook seems to be making the rounds among food bloggers. Many thanks to everyone out there from Singapore to Brussels via L.A. Here are some of our favorites:

Glorious Food and Wine

The Head Butler

Paris in the Spring

Each year, when the first rays of sun make their appearance and the days become longer, Parisians are transformed. Men and women sit at outdoor cafes, immediately feeling Latin; there is a sense of festivity in the air. To celebrate Spring, one might begin with an evening of Lebanese mezze at the elegant Rimal restaurant, at 94, bd Malesherbes in the 17th arrondissement near the Parc Monceau. While exploring the Buttes de Chaumont park in northern Paris, stop in for lunch at the tiny and colorful Comme sur Une Ile restaurant, at 83, rue Orfila, 20th, which serves specialties from the Ile Maurice. After exploring the multiethnic neighborhood of Belleville, stop by La Bague de Kenza at 106, rue St. Maur, in the 11th, and pick up a box of scrumptious Algerian sweets to restore energy. The Luxembourg Gardens are the perfect place to soak up rays while sprawled in the classic green metal garden chairs. Afterwards, lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant would hit the spot at the sleek Tao, 248, rue St. Jacques in the 5th. Finally, don't leave Paris without a box of green tea madeleines to take home to friends, made by Sadaharu Aoki, the enfant terrible of the Parisian pastry scene: Patisserie Sadaharu Aoki, 35, rue de Vaugirard, in the 6th.