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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home

By Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini

Published 2025

  • About

We may be French at heart, but we’ll never forget our humble roots in Arizona. When I was young, my mom and I ate frequently at a Mexican joint housed in a former Waffle House location, where the guy that had been in charge since Marge’s childhood made a killer hot sauce. It was an institution. Before we moved to France, I knew spicy food was something we’d miss, so I talked him into sharing the hot sauce recipe. In Beaune, we learned to make our own corn tortillas (which are still hard to