Bruno, Chief of Police
Bruno's Cookbook: Recipes and Traditions from a French Country Kitchen
Martin Walker, Julia Watson
Recipes used by a fictional small town cop with a penchant for gourmet culinary pursuits. Many of the ingredients are either hard to find outside large cities or too expensive for the average budget. This is French Cuisine at its finest. Most don't have a wild boar or a basset to help find truffles or have a taste for paté de foie gras. I'd never thought of cooking with duck fat--$32 for 11 oz. on Amazon--nor am I ever likely to try. It is interesting to see how the other half eats mind you. These are Jones with whom I have no desire to emulate.
Restaurants with delusions of grandeur tend to use French equivalents to describe their dishes. For example Coulis rather than fruit sauce. Crème Glacée for ice cream. Pomme de Terre Frit for French Fries.
I'm not likely to ever use any of these recipes but the descriptions and chatter are interesting.
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