Exciting New Cookbook

This is our new cookbook, which arrived from amazon.com on Sunday night.

We have been extremely fond of the Poilâne bakery since first our long stay in Paris many years ago. We lived across the street from the bakery on Boulevard de Grenelle, and we learned to love the renowned bread -- pain au levain, the small, plain cookies, the apple tarts, and more. While the bakery was already famous when we lived there, it has since developed an incredible cult status.

The author of this cookbook, Apollonia Poilâne, is the granddaughter of the founder, who started the Paris bakery in 1933. Her father, the second generation of Poilâne bakers, wrote a cookbook that I’ve written about before. The recipes in our new book appear much more approachable than the older ones, and include many intriguing sandwiches and other foods that we look forward to trying out. I'll definitely write more about this great new book, which was published last year. I've hardly had time to really check it out.

Apple tarts at Poilâne on our most recent visit in November, 2018.
There are two branches of the bakery: this was the one on Rue du Cherche-Midi.

These apple tarts are one of my favorite treats.
I hope we'll try this recipe! We'll have to learn to make puff pastry.

My earlier Poilâne book, which I bought at the
bakery years ago.

Update May 5: Len’s first bake from the book.
Pain Poilâne!

Blog post by mae sander. © 2020.