French Guy Cooking tackles the 5 Mother Sauces

 

“Each and everyday, we strive for quality and modernity. Like perfumers, we create flavors.”

“Making sauce is an art,” explained Alex Gabriel, AKA French Guy Cooking, in a video last week announcing his new project: sauces.

Gabriel is known for his enthusiastic DIY approach to cooking, paired with instructional interviews with the best in the biz. In this new series on the 5 French Mother Sauces (béchamel, velouté, espagnole, hollandaise, and tomato), Gabriel sets out to learn about the dynamic and delicious world of sauces. He visits Christian Le Squer, the Chef de Cuisine of the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris, a 3-Michelin star restaurant, where Le Squer explains to Alex that cooks are sauciers, first.

Executive Chef, Romain Mauduit, introduces Gabriel to the importance of thickening sauces through reduction. “As volume decreases, concentration increases, so flavor intensifies.” The copper pots full of monstrous quantities of veal and chicken stock will make your mouth water.

“Each and everyday, we strive for quality and modernity. Like perfumers, we create flavors. From tradition to modernity.”

Source: French Guy Cooking Tackles the 5 Mother Sauces – Frenchly

Beegie Adair Trio “Autumn Leaves”

The iconic Beegie Adair Trio performs the jazz classic “Autumn Leaves,” (“Les Feuilles Mortes”) written by Joseph Kosma

“Autumn Leaves” is said to have been recorded nearly 1400 times by mainstream and modern jazz musicians alone and is the eighth most-recorded tune by jazzmen.

The first commercial recordings of “Les Feuilles mortes” were released in 1950, by Cora Vaucaire and by Yves Montand. Johnny Mercer wrote the English lyric and gave it the title “Autumn Leaves”

Reda Caire interview from 1960

Reda Caire interviewé ,il chante accompagné au piano par Max Boyat il chante une nouvelle chanson puis “les beaux dimanches de Printemps”,”si tu reviens”,”jeunesse”.

Filmé le 12 Novembre 1960.désolé pour la qualité de l’image.

Reda Caire interviewed, he sings accompanied on the piano by Max Boyat
he sings a new song then “The beautiful Sundays of Spring”, “If you come back”, “Youth”.

Filmed on November 12, 1960. sorry for the picture quality.

Pomme in live session at Paris’ La Cartonnerie

Awarded at the Victoire de la musique this year, the young singer Pomme takes over La Cartonnerie for an intimate session!Between Paris and Montreal, the 24-year-old author, composer and performer unveils pop-folk music in a melancholy atmosphere.

Discovered three years ago with her album ” À propos”, her project comes to life on stage when she meets her audience during a tour of over 300 concerts. Back in 2019 with her new album “Les failles” then during her reissue entitled “Les Failles Cachées” in February 2020, the singer takes us into her sensitive and refined universe. Behind his guitar, Pomme recounts his doubts and his wounds using writing as real therapy.

At La Cartonnerie in Paris, Pomme performs the songs “La lumière”, “Les cours d’eau” and “Soleil soleil” live!

Watch the concert at: Apple in live session at La Cartonnerie – streaming video | France tv

Music History in the here and now

In the latest of her Global Music Match dispatches, The Magpies’ Holly Brandon meets up with Canadian trio VISHTEN, whose music thrillingly combines a rich cultural heritage with contemporary rock

MULTI-INSTRUMENTALISTS Emmanuelle and Pastelle LeBlanc and Pascal Miousse — Vishten — have been dazzling audiences with a fierylend of traditional French songs and original instrumentation for over a decade.

The name Vishten is a nod to the eponymous song whose lyrics are a percussive amalgam of French, Mi’kmaq and English, a musical realisation of the band’s fascinating Acadian heritage.

For millennia Acadia, a region in north-eastern North America, was occupied by the Mi’kmaq people. It was colonised by the French in 1604, hence the strong Francophone influence in the songs, while subsequent settlers from Ireland and Scotland left their Celtic stamp on the music

In the 1750s, following the British conquest, the Acadians’ refusal to swear allegiance to the British crown resulted in a deportation that saw the expulsion of almost 12,000 Acadians to the British-American colonies further south. When they returned, they added their newfound US influences to the Acadian musical melting pot. Continue reading “Music History in the here and now” →