Fabulously Delicious: The French Food Podcast
Fabulously Delicious: The French Food Podcast explores French cuisine, culture, and culinary history through engaging storytelling. Host Andrew Prior, a passionate Francophile, covers iconic dishes, regional specialties, and the chefs who shaped French gastronomy. The podcast delves into the stories behind foods like macarons, croissants, and boeuf bourguignon, as well as culinary traditions and artisan ingredients. It is aimed at foodies, Francophiles, home cooks, and anyone dreaming of a trip to France.
Episodes
The Women's March on Versailles: How the Price of Bread Changed France Forever
On the morning of 5 October 1789, a young woman picked up a drum in a Paris market and started beating it. Within hours, ten thousand people, mostly market women armed with kitchen knives and cannons taken from the Hôtel de Ville, were marching twelve miles through the rain toward Versailles. By the next morning they would force Louis XVI to leave his palace for Paris, never to freely return. It a
The Story of Pierre Troisgros: Fifty-Two Years of Three Michelin Stars and the Dish That Changed Everything
In the late 1940s, three young cooks worked side by side in the kitchen of La Pyramide under Fernand Point: Paul Bocuse and two brothers, Jean and Pierre Troisgros. Bocuse became the most famous chef in France. The brothers went home to Roanne, an industrial town in the Loire, and built a restaurant in a hotel directly opposite the railway station that held three Michelin stars for fifty-two conse
Foie Gras: 4,000 Years of History, Controversy, and French Luxury
Four thousand years ago, workers on the banks of the Nile were force-feeding geese — and it's carved in stone to prove it. This episode traces foie gras from that Egyptian tomb carving through ancient Rome, where the practice gave half of Europe's languages their word for "liver," through medieval Jewish communities who kept the tradition alive for centuries, and finally to the c
Reblochon: The Cheese Born From Tax Evasion
Reblochon: The Cheese Born From Tax Evasion. Reblochon is a soft, washed-rind cheese from the French Alps with a nutty, hazelnut character and a bark bolder than its bite — but its real story starts with a medieval tax dodge. In the fourteenth century, farmers in the Thônes valley deliberately under-milked their cows when the landlord's rent collector came to measure the yield, then finished milki
The Story of Alexandre Dumaine: The Forgotten King of French Cooking
He held three Michelin stars for thirty years and cooked for kings, presidents, and Hemingway — yet almost nobody outside serious culinary history has heard his name. This episode tells the story of Alexandre Dumaine, the chef whose restaurant, La Côte d'Or in the small Burgundian town of Saulieu, was once called a national shrine of French gastronomy.We trace his path from a working-class boy
Le Repas Marcaire: The Mountain Farmer's Meal of the Vosges
Le repas marcaire — the extraordinary farmhouse meal of the Alsatian Vosges that has been served in the stone mountain shelters of the high chaumes since the Middle Ages — is one of the most authentic, most specific and most completely of its landscape dining experiences in the whole of France. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes at Le Markstein — at 1,240 metres on the Alsatian crest
Carpe Frite: The Golden Fish of the Sundgau — Alsace's Best Kept Food Secret
Carpe frite — the deep-fried carp of the Sundgau, the southernmost territory of Alsace — is one of the most distinctive and most localised food traditions in the whole of eastern France. Today's Food Tour de France episode starts in Mulhouse — the great industrial city of the Haut-Rhin, 24 kilometres from the Sundgau — and tells the full story of a dish that has been made in the fish pond country
Le Jeanbonhomme: The Alsatian Brioche That Arrived With the Refugees of 1871
Le jeanbonhomme — the small, golden, man-shaped brioche of the Territoire de Belfort that appears in every bakery in the city from Saint Nicolas Day on the 6th of December through to Christmas — is one of the most historically specific and most emotionally resonant seasonal foods in the whole of eastern France. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes in Belfort — the Lion city, the gatewa
Le Chat Perché: The Gourmet Festival That Turns Dole Into a Food Village
Le Week-end Gourmand du Chat Perché — the extraordinary annual food festival that transforms the entire historic centre of Dole into a vast gourmet village every September — is one of the most celebrated and most distinctive food events in the whole of Bourgogne Franche-Comté. Today's Food Tour de France episode starts in Dole — the former capital of the Franche-Comté, a city of Renaissance ar
La Pôchouse: The Forgotten River Fish Stew of Burgundy | Food Tour de France
La pôchouse — the ancient freshwater fish stew of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, made from a specific combination of Saône and Doubs river fish cooked in Burgundy aligoté white wine — is one of the most distinctive and most overlooked dishes in the whole of French regional cooking. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes in Chalon-sur-Saône — a river city in the Saône-et-Loire, one of the gr
Nougatine de Nevers: The Sweet an Empress Couldn't Stop Eating | Food Tour de France
Nougatine de Nevers — the small artisan sweet of chopped almonds caramelised in copper, double-coated in orange royal icing and presented in a round tin decorated with portraits of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugénie — is one of the most historically romantic confections in France. Today's Food Tour de France episode starts in Magny-Cours — home of the famous Formula One circuit, just south o
Le Négus de Nevers: The Sweet Born From a Press Error in 1902
Le Négus de Nevers: The Sweet Born From a Press Error in 1902 | Food Tour de FranceLe Négus de Nevers — the soft chocolate-scented caramel enclosed in a hard caramel shell that has been made in Nevers since 1902 — is one of the most charming and most improbable origin stories in the whole of French confectionery. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes in Nevers — the capital of the Nièvr
Pastille de Vichy: The Sweet That Started as a Medicine
Pastille de Vichy: The Sweet That Started as a Medicine | Food Tour de FrancePastille de Vichy — the small octagonal white tablet that has been made in Vichy since 1825, that entered the French pharmacopoeia as a medicine in 1837 and that 3.6 million of are produced every single day — is one of the most recognisable and most historically fascinating confections in France. Today's Food Tour de Fran
La Pachade: The Forgotten Potato Pancake of the Auvergne
La Pachade: The Forgotten Potato Pancake of the Auvergne | Food Tour de FranceLa pachade — the thick, crispy potato pancake of the Auvergne that has been feeding the mountain people of this volcanic landscape for centuries — is one of those dishes that is completely unknown outside its home region and completely fundamental within it. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes at Le Lioran — rig
Cantal AOP: The Oldest Cheese in France
Cantal — the ancient pressed cow's milk cheese of the Massif Central and one of the oldest cheeses in the world — has a history that stretches back further than almost anything else in French food culture. Today's Food Tour de France episode starts in Aurillac — the capital of the Cantal department, right in the heart of the volcanic Auvergne — and tells the story of a cheese that Pliny th
Eau de Treignac: The Purest Water in France Nobody Has Heard Of
Eau de Treignac: The Purest Water in France Nobody Has Heard Of | Food Tour de FranceEau de Treignac — the extraordinary natural mineral water from a source above a village of 1,389 people in the Corrèze — is one of the most remarkable and most overlooked food products in this entire series. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes in Ussel, deep in the heart of the Corrèze plateau, and te
The Liqueurs of Brive-la-Gaillarde: The Secret Drinks Capital of the Corrèze
The Liqueurs of Brive-la-Gaillarde: The Secret Drinks Capital of the Corrèze | Food Tour de FranceBrive-la-Gaillarde — the largest city in the Corrèze, sitting at the point where the Massif Central meets the Dordogne Valley — has been making artisan liqueurs since 1839 and is one of the most underrated drinks destinations in France. Today's Food Tour de France episode starts in Malemort, right
Monbazillac: The Sweet Wine of the Dordogne That Was There From the Very Beginning
Monbazillac: The Sweet Wine of the Dordogne That Was There From the Very Beginning | Food Tour de FranceMonbazillac — the extraordinary sweet white wine of the Dordogne and one of the oldest protected appellations in France — has a story that begins at the very birth of the French AOC system. In 1936, six wines in France received the very first controlled designations of origin — the first AOCs in
Pâté de Périgueux: The Five-Hundred-Year-Old Pâté of the Dordogne
Pâté de Périgueux: The Five-Hundred-Year-Old Pâté of the Dordogne | Food Tour de FrancePâté de Périgueux — the extraordinary truffled foie gras pâté of the Dordogne and one of the most historically significant preparations in the whole of French charcuterie — has been made in Périgueux since at least 1498, when a group of pastry makers calling themselves fabricants de pâtés swore an oath before th
Bouchon Bordelais: The Sweet That Looks Like a Cork
Bouchon Bordelais: The Sweet That Looks Like a Cork | Food Tour de FranceLe bouchon bordelais — the small cylindrical confection shaped like a wine bottle cork that is the most distinctive sweet in Bordeaux — is one of those French regional confections that is almost impossible to find outside its home city and completely synonymous with it inside. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes
Vins de Tursan: The Secret Vineyard of the Landes
Vins de Tursan: The Secret Vineyard of the Landes | Food Tour de FranceVins de Tursan — the AOC wine of the Landes that most people outside the southwest of France have never heard of — is one of the most distinctive and most underrated appellations in the whole of French wine. Today's Food Tour de France episode starts in Hagetmau, right in the heart of Tursan wine country, and tells the full
Mouton Barèges-Gavarnie: The Finest Mutton in France
Mouton Barèges-Gavarnie: The Finest Mutton in France | Food Tour de FranceMouton Barèges-Gavarnie — the extraordinary AOP mutton from the high mountain pastures above the Tour de France route today — is one of the most remarkable and most misunderstood meat products in France. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes at Gavarnie-Gèdre at the foot of the Tourmalet, and tells the full story
Garbure: The Great Slow-Cooked Soup of Gascony
Garbure: The Great Slow-Cooked Soup of Gascony | Food Tour de FranceGarbure — the thick, slow-cooked cabbage and duck confit soup of the Gascon and Béarnais tradition — is one of the great dishes of southwest France and one of the most honest expressions of what French mountain cooking actually is. Today's Food Tour de France episode starts in Pau — the second of two consecutive episodes in th
Sauce Béarnaise: The Classic French Sauce That Isn't From Béarn
Sauce Béarnaise: The Classic French Sauce That Isn't From Béarn | Food Tour de FranceSauce béarnaise — one of the great sauces of classical French cuisine, named after the Béarn region of the southwest and associated with the city of Pau — was not actually created in Béarn at all. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes in Pau and tells the full and rather wonderful story of a sauce i
Haricot Tarbais: The King of French Beans
Haricot Tarbais: The King of French Beans | Food Tour de FranceHaricot Tarbais — the extraordinary white bean of the Hautes-Pyrénées and one of the finest ingredients in the whole of southwest French cooking — has a story that starts in Peru, crosses the Pyrenees in the sixteenth century, nearly disappears entirely in the 1950s and comes back stronger than before. Today's Food Tour de France e
La Rouzole: The Forgotten Dish of the Ariège
La Rouzole: The Forgotten Dish of the Ariège | Food Tour de FranceLa Rouzole — the largely unknown farmhouse pork cake of the Ariège department in the French Pyrenees — is one of the most fascinating and most overlooked dishes in the whole of southern French cooking. Today's Food Tour de France episode finishes in Foix — the medieval capital of the Ariège, with its extraordinary château perche
Cassoulet: The God of Occitan Cuisine
Cassoulet: The God of Occitan Cuisine | Food Tour de FranceCassoulet — the slow-cooked white bean stew that the gastronome Prosper Montagné called the God of Occitan cuisine — is one of the most celebrated and most fiercely contested dishes in the whole of French gastronomy. Today's Food Tour de France episode starts in Carcassonne — one of the three cities at the heart of the great cassoulet
Tomme des Pyrénées
The Alpine Cheese of the Pyrenees | Food Tour de FranceTomme des Pyrénées — the ancient Alpine cheese of the French Pyrenees — is one of the most distinctive and most underrated cheeses in France, and today's Food Tour de France episode tells its full story. As the Tour de France finishes at Les Angles in the Pyrénées-Orientales, we explore the cheese that has been made in these mountains sinc
The Story of Fernand Point - The Father of Modern French Cuisine
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La Pôchouse: The Forgotten River Fish Stew of Burgundy | Food Tour de France
La Pôchouse: The Forgotten River Fish Stew of Burgundy | Food Tour de FranceLa pôchouse — the ancient freshwater fish stew of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, made from a specific combination of Saône and Doubs river fish cooked in Burgundy aligoté white wine — is one of the most distinctive and most overlooked dishes in the whole of French regional cooking. Today's Food Tour de France episode fini
Anniversary Episode - Celebrating Five Fabulous Years
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French Cheese - The Full Story
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Bordeaux: The Food Capital of Southwest France You Need to Know
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The Story of Louis Diat: The French Chef Who Invented Vichyssoise in New York
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Brie de Meaux: The King of Cheeses
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French Food News — April 2026
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The Story of Roger Vergé: The Chef Who Brought Sunshine to French Cuisine
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The Story of Fabulous French Chefs Part Four: Vatel, Carême, Soyer, Dubois and Oliver
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Abondance Cheese: The Forgotten Alpine Cheese That Served Medieval Cardinals
Abondance cheese — one of the great forgotten Alpine cheeses of France — has a story that stretches back to the medieval monasteries of Haute-Savoie and all the way to the papal conclave in Avignon in the fourteenth century, where it was served to cardinals from across Europe. In this episode of Fabulously Delicious, we're telling the full story of Abondance cheese — the semi-hard, raw cow&ap
Revisited: The Story of Alexis Soyer - The Frenchman Who Changed British Food Forever
Alexis Benoit Soyer was born in a small town in northern France in 1810, and by the time he died in London in 1858 he had changed the way Britain thought about food forever. He redesigned the kitchen of one of London's most prestigious private members clubs from scratch, invented cooking technology that had never existed before, fed thousands of starving people during one of the worst humanit
French Food News — March 2026
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Rungis: Inside the World's Largest Food Market
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Burgundy: The Food Capital of France You Need to Know
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The Story of Clotilde Bizolon
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French Food News: March 2026 — Michelin Moves, Bocuse at 100, and What’s On in France
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Life Is Better With Butter: The French Beurre Episode
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The Cerise de Montmorency — A Very French Cherry
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Voices of the Market Les Cris de Paris
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Croissants: The Surprising History of France’s Most Iconic Pastry
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Revisit Pain D'Epice
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Revisit Capon with Emily Gaudichon
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From Forest to Feast: The Story of French Châtaignes
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Revisit A to Z of French Herbs - Black Elder - Sureau Noir
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La Tour d’Argent: Paris’s Legendary Duck Restaurant
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Périgord: The Land of Truffles, Duck, and Autumn Riches
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Revisit A to Z of French Herbs - Bay Leaves - Feuilles de Laurier
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The Story of Charles Ranhofer
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En Croûte: When the French Wrap Food in Pastry
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Revisit A to Z of French Herbs - Basil - Basilic
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Reductions and Gastrique Sauces in French Cuisine
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Velvety, Buttery, Tangy: Hollandaise and Béarnaise Uncovered
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Daughter Sauces
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The Saucier: Master of Sauce in French Cuisine
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Revisit A to Z of French Herbs - Anis Vert - Green Anise
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Mother Sauces
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French Sauces
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Revisit A to Z of French Herbs Angelica - Angélique
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Bleu d’Auvergne: The Creamy Blue Jewel of Central France
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Revisit A to Z fo French Herbs Alfalfa - Luzerne
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The Art of the French Picnic: From Baguette to Rosé
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Tarte Citron et Tarte Citron Meringue
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Revisit - Absinthe - The A to Z of French Herbs
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Apéro
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Oysters in French Cuisine: A Shuckingly Good Tradition
Oysters — or huîtres, as the French so deliciously say — have long been a symbol of indulgence and celebration in France. In this episode of Fabulously Delicious, we’re diving deep into the briny world of French oysters to explore their history, cultural significance, and enduring place at the French table, especially during the festive season.From the chilly waters of Normandy to the sun-drenched
Coq Au Vin
In this episode of Fabulously Delicious: The French Food Podcast, we dive into the rich and rustic world of Coq au Vin—one of France’s most beloved and comforting classic dishes. From its humble origins as a way to tenderize tough old roosters to its transformation into a culinary icon, Coq au Vin tells a story that’s as flavourful as the dish itself. Whether you're a seasoned Francophile or
Crème Fraîche: A Culinary Tale of Culture and Cream
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The Story Of Paul Bocuse
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Bouillabaisse
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Rocamadour et Cabécou de Rocamadour
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