Sources

Appears in
Glorious French Food

By James Peterson

Published 2002

  • About
Ingredients and Specialty Cookware

The numbers appearing in parentheses that follow each list entry refer the reader to the list of suppliers that begins.

  • Anchovies, packed in salt (24,27,33)
  • Balsamic vinegar, aged authentic (24,34)
  • Beans and other legumes, dried:
    • Borlotti (7,10)
    • Canellini (7,10)
    • Green flageoles (7,10)
    • Le Puy green lentils (7,10)
    • Lingot (7)
    • Tarbais (7)
  • Cheesemaking supplies:
    • Butter muslin (cheesecloth for draining soft cheeses) (17)
    • Rennet, animal and vegetable (17)
    • Starter cultures (17)
  • Chocolate:
    • Scharffen Berger (13,26)
    • Valrhona (7,13,18)
  • Citrus oils:
    • Boyajian orange oil (7,13,18)
  • Cooking equipment:
    • Benriner cutters (3,12)
    • Cassolettes (2,12)
    • Coeur à la crème molds (2,12)
    • Charlotte molds (2,12)
    • Chinoise strainers (2,12,22)
    • Conical strainers (2,12,22,29)
    • Crème brûlée dishes (2,12,29,32)
    • Dariole molds (2,12)
    • Drum sieves (2,12)
    • Financier molds (2,12,18)
    • Flame tamers (13,32)
    • Gratin pans and dishes (2,12,22,29)
    • Knives (2,12,22)
    • Madeleine pans (molds) (2,7,12,18)
    • Mandolines (2,12,22,29,33)
    • pâté molds, porcelain (2,12, 22, 33)
    • Quiche dishes (porcelain) (2,12)
    • Raclette makers (32)
    • Rolling pins, European style (2,7,12,22,29)
    • Rondeaux pans (2,12, 22)
    • Savarian and baba molds (2,12)
    • Scoops (ice cream, about 1 inch [25 mm]) (2,7,12,13)
    • Soufflé dishes and ramekins (2,3,12, 29,33)
    • Stockpots (3, 22,33)
    • Tart pans (with removable bottom) and tartlet molds (2,18, 29,33)
    • Terrine molds, enameled cast iron, and porcelain (Le Creuset) (2,3,12,22,32,33)
    • Truffle slicers (2,7,12)
    • Windsor pans (2,7,12)
  • Cornichons (7,33,34)
  • Dairy products:
    • Crème fraîche (31)
    • Fromage blanc (31)
  • Demi-glace (4,16)
  • Herbs, spices, and other seasonings:
    • Fleur de sel (4,7)
    • Ginger, candied Australian (21)
    • Herbes de Provence (7,21,32)
    • Pimentón (27)
    • Saffron (27)
  • Flours and starters:
    • Almond flour (13)
    • Buckwheat flour (13)
    • Chickpea flour (in Indian stores also called besan) (13)
    • Sourdough starter (13)
  • Fruit purées and coulis (23)
  • Meat and poultry products:
    • Bacon, double-smoked (7)
    • Duck confit and magrets (6)
    • Duck, farm-raised Pekin (14)
    • Duck fat (6,16)
    • Foie gras (bloc, mousse, and raw) (6)
    • Garlic sausages (6,7)
    • Goose fat (6,7)
    • Ham, cured unsmoked (7)
    • Hare (20)
    • Lamb, farm-raised (11)
    • Pancetta (7)
    • Pork, farm-raised (9,19)
    • Quail (6)
    • Sausage-making supplies (25)
    • Squab (20)
    • Veal, farm-raised (20)
  • Mushrooms:
    • Dried wild (15,24,30)
    • Fresh in season (15,30)
  • Nut oils
    • Le Blanc (roasted hazelnut, pistachio, walnut) (7,24)
  • Nut pastis (see Praline paste)
  • Olive oil
    • Premium Ligurian olive oil, called Schiapa, from Aldo Armato (24)
    • Assorted artisanal oils (34)
  • Praline paste (13,18)
  • Puff pastry (8)
  • Salt cod (27)
  • Saltpeter (5)
  • Sugar (sanding and crystallized) (13,18)
  • Trout, farm-raised (28)
  • Truffles and truffle products (7,15,30)
  • Vinegar-making supplies (1)