Bistro is warm. Bistro is family. Bistro is simple, hearty, generous cuisine-robust soups and country omelets, wine-scented stews and bubbling gratins, and desserts from a grandmother's kitchen. Researched and written by Patricia Wells, author of The Food Lover's Guide to Paris and The Food Lover's Guide to France, together with over 220,000 copies in print, here is a celebration of the no-nonsense, inexpensive, soul-satisfying cuisine of the neighborhood restaurants of France. BISTRO COOKING contains over 200 scrumptious bistro recipes made lighter and quicker for the way we cook today. Warm Poached Sausage with Potato Salad. Benoit's Mussel Soup. Guy Savoy's Fall Leg of Lamb. Beef Stew with Wild Mushrooms and Orange, Chicken Basquaise, Pasta with Lemon, Ham, and Black Olives, L'Ami Louis' Potato Cake, Provencal Roast Tomatoes, Pears in Red Wine, and Golden Cream and Apple Tart. Throughout, lively notes and sidebars capture the world of bistro owners in the kitchen, les grands chefs, and more. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Winner of the 1989 IACP Seagram Food and Beverage Award. Over 166,000 copies in print. Patricia Wells, for more than two decades the restaurant critic for The International Herald Tribune, is the author of the award-winning Bistro Cooking, as well as more than a dozen other books. She also runs a successful cooking school in both Paris and Provence, where she and her husband have lived for more than 30 years. 200 recipes inspired by the small family restaurants of France celebrate a return to generous, full-flavored cooking. Bistro is warm, bistro is family. Bistro is robust soups and rustic salads, wine-scented stews, bubbling gratins, and desserts from a grandmother's kitchen. Bistro is everyday china and elbows on the table and second helpings. It is best friends over for no particular reason. Bistro is earthy, not fuss; easy, not painstaking. And BISTRO COOKING presents no-nonsense, inexpensive, soul-satisfying cuisine inspired by the neighborhood restaurants of France. With 200 recipes, plus menus and quotes, BISTRO COOKING features not only bistro owners in the kitchen, but French housewives, farmers, winemakers, breadbakers, and many others who contribute to bistro as a way of life. "Patricia Wells' wonderful naturalness, openness, and honesty are in perfect harmony with the simple, delicious fare she celebrates in BISTRO COOKING . . . her enthusiasm and joy are reflected on every page of this fine book, and happily we are all the beneficiaries." -JACQUES PEPIN MENU LEFT BANK BISTRO; TABLE FOR TWO Familiar bistro fare, a menu designed to celebrate romance, love, or simply the fact that you're alive and well. With this, try a Saint-Veran or a Macon-Villages. Saucisson Chaud Pommes a L'Huile Warm Poached Sausage with Potato Salad Canard aux Olives Chez Allard Chez Allard's Roast Duck with Olives Tarte aux Pommes a la CrSme Golden Cream and Apple Tart CONTENTS Introduction: Bistro as a Way of Life LES HOR D'OEUVRES, POUR VOUS METTRE EN APPETIT Appetizers, First Courses, and Palate Teasers LES SOUPES ET LES POTAGES DU JOUR Soups of the Day LES SALADES DU MARCHE Market Basket Salads LES PATES Pastas LES LEGUMES DE SAISON Seasonal Vegetables LES POMMES DE TERRE Potatoes LES OEUFS, LES FROMAGES, LES TERRINES, ET LES TARTES Eggs, Cheese, Terrines, and Tarts LES POISSONS ET LES FRUITES DE MER Fish and Shellfish LES VOLAILLES Poultry: Chicken, Duck, Guinea Hen, and Rabbit LES VIANDES, LES ROTIS, ET PLATS DU JOUR Meats, Roasts, and Daily Specials LES DESSERTS MAISON Homemade Desserts BASICS Pastries, Bread Dough, Sauces, and Stocks When in France Index

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