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Tête de veau en tortue. Illustrations by E. Ronjat from Le Livre de Cuisine by Jules Gouffé, Paris, 1867

FRENCH FOOD HASN’T been cool for a very long time.

The sauces at the center of classical French cuisine have been seen as outmoded for decades and are all but ignored, in France as everywhere, although some of those sauces could hardly be better: blood…

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