Le Festival Cookbook: A Book of Franco-American Recipes

This cookbook represents an effort to compile authentic Franco-American recipes from numerous archives and literary sources of the mid-20th century. In this book you wont find the French cuisine of Paris of puff pastries or delicately plated duck confit. These are the dishes of the working class humble accessible- the food of those who forged a new identity in the United States reminiscent of France of Canada of Quebec. In this book of New England French recipes you wont find the Cajun Holy Trinity but what you will find is roux choux and tourtières.