Bleu Café’s Culinary Travelers Club for Nov 14 - French Country Feast
Our next Culinary Travelers Club dinner will be on Nov 14th. We will be bringing you the highly anticipated “French Country Feast."
This event will feature a five course meal prepared with recipes dating back generations, prepared from scratch the old fashioned way. We will begin with the French tradition of apéro, or aperitif. It is believed that a body must relax, have a light cocktail or liqueur and a few bites of something delicious in order to encourage the appetite. We couldn’t agree more!
The meal will continue in courses leading to the main event, Duck a l’Orange. We will prepare this dish using a very old recipe that requires two whole ducks and two days, just to make the stock for the sauce. We love recipes like this, and believe complexity and time are often required to yield the best result.
Interestingly, there is vigorous debate whether duck a l’orange is actually a French or an Italian invention. Sweet oranges were originally brought to Europe from Arab countries by Portuguese and Italian merchants in the late 14th century and traveled quickly throughout southern Europe. It is widely accepted that Catherine di Medici of Florence brought her love of Florentine cuisine along with many chefs armed with recipes to France when she married King Henry II in 1533. Duck a l'Orange or Anatra All’Arancia was amongst them. It is likely that nearly 500 years ago, French chefs did what they so often do, “they made it their own”. French it is!
Please join us for another adventure in food Wednesday, November 14. Click here for our flyer!