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Barns on Walt's 300 acre farm. This part of New York State offers good bottomland and wide open fields, great for farming and rabbits.
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Tom's beagle, Bernadette, headed out to a hedgerow. You can see part of her GPS tracking system that goes around her collar.
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Here is Tom, President of The Old Rabbit Hunter's Association. He knows more about rabbit hunting than just about anyone.
PARIS IN THE SNOW
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Every café has an automatic citrus juicer—freshly squeezed OJ along with your Café Creme.
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A cold, wintry street in January in Paris. The perfect time to enjoy a warm bowl of couscous and a bottle of wine.
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The pastry offerings at Chez Omar. My favorite pastry was the pistachio-flavored pastry in the foreground.
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Iconic view of the Seine photographed using an "illustration" filter on the camera.
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A store window in Paris with stuffed animals. (They claim that all of the animals die a natural death in a zoo!)
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The best street hustler I have ever met was working the 7th near Place Pigalle. He started a conversation using this miniature sheep and then ended up trying to sell me $20 of cheap candy. This guy could sell ice to Eskimos.
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The only thing at Grand Vefour that was really worth eating. (Orange tart with a soft lime meringue topping.) The pastry chef was brilliant but, unfortunately, the rest of the food was mediocre.
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These simple custard tarts are Portuguese and served at both locations of Da Rosa.
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The Paris Photos are outstanding. My first experience viewing a scene through an illustration filter. Both “View of the Seine” and “Pastries at Rose Bakery” would fit comfortably in my hallway photo gallery. Thank you for sharing.
Christopher, if you ever decide to retire from professional life in the kitchen, you should become a photographer! Some of your shots are awesome!
My own favorite Parisian food memories are 1) the parfait glass filled with wild strawberries, dripping with a syrup of balsamic vinegar, honey, and basil chiffonade served at the Rodin Museum Cafe and 2) the ubiquitous mini-guillotines used in restaurants to slice long, skinny loaves of bread.
Thanks.
I loved your snowy Paris photos! We went to Paris in the month of May and it was the most lovely and beautiful place I have ever visited. I loved EVERYTHING about it! The food, the people, the City of Lights, the history, and the wonderful chocolate croissants that we ate daily at our hotel at breakfast time.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful photos!
Ah, memories! What splendid photographs – thanks for sharing them, but I hate you … smile! … for it has been much too long since I visited there … hmm, thirty years since my last time! Mutter, mutter, mutter! Who knows … you might motivate me to
make the effort (and cover the expense) of a return visit! (!!!)
Frank, who always watched all your shows on PBS!
Thank you for sharing your story/photos. Lovely!!!
Rabbit hunting, I call it taking my gun for a walk. Sometimes I actually get a rabbit. my dog likes it best of all. #1 barn pic is great. the Paris street pics my favorite the fruit / veg market.
Your shot of the barn reminds me of Wyeth; beautiful. And the Paris pics are lovely!
Loved this article and photos! Would love to hear other favorite big city restaurants of yours.
My husband of 51 years and I went to Le Grand Vefour in 1964 and I had Toast de Crevettes Rothschild, Pigeon Prince Ranier III, Salade Verte, and Crepes Belle Otero. He had Brochete de Fruits de Mer Provencale, Croustade de Cailles la Creme, and some of my salad and crepes. It was delicious. We sat at George Sand’s table.
Your book sounds great!
Oh thank you for the little mini vacation this morning! I adored every minute of it! Just lovely.
I thought you had found us the perfect restaurant for our short time in Paris (couple hours free time as part of tour). Everything looked great till I saw Le Cinq Mars is not open on Sundays. Alors!
Great pix, but I’ve got to ask while I got ya, Christopher, what’s the deal with Cooks Country? Exact same format of ATK but with some farm exterior boom shots. Also the 2 second cutaway of the testing “audience” is really lame. At least we’re spared the costumes for the intros.
I would love to see the two pics in their original form. If possible. Pleeeeeeeeeeease? Thanks
Hello. I love the photos taken in illustration mode, would love to know how to do that, is it on a cell phone or a digital camera? I also love the Portugese custard tarts. Hope you will post a recipe on your site so we can make them too. Also post a recipe for photo # 26 if possible.
Even here in bonnie Scotland we manage to receive the fabulous America’s Test Kitchen and love all the participants and the food which Chris does a grand job of drooling over. Hope you enjoyed Paris, we Scots can appreciate snow, cold, freezing wind but surely to a Vermonter (?) that kinda weather is old hat
Reminds me of hunting rabbits with my father 64 years ago in upstate NY. No fancy GPS for the dog then and it was a beagle.
Thank you for a refreshing break! Like Tricia above, it was truly a mini-vacation from the storms here in KS. Loved the photos of Paris, as well as the VT stories.
RE: Photo 22, The Assiette de Legume from Rose Bakery
what are these ingredients? I must try making this entire dish!
Beautiful photos, thanks for sharing.
I’ll never see Paris, but looking at your beautiful photos (loved the illustration ones) makes me experience such places in my mind and wish to make the wonderful dishes you enjoyed.
One of my dreams is to experience the culinary delights of Paris…your photos and descriptions of your experience takes me there! Thank you for sharing both the upstate New York photos and the beautiful photos of Paris in the snow! You have brought warmth and sunshine and delight to a cold February morning.
Your stories and pictures are such a joy to receive.
Did a search & it seems the only digital camera with illustration mode is the Sony RX100.
Love your photos of Paree, the food shots look sumptuous!
Love to watch the Test Kitchen shows on Public Television, everyone on the show is knowlegable and things move along
quickly and accurately. Thanx all!!
I am sorry to inform you that the Eastern Cottontail Rabbit is close to being an endangered species. I remember going out with a pair of enthusiastic dogs who hunted and killed them very efficiently with the reward of eating fresh-killed rabbit in the field. I have recently learned that 80% are gone from New England.
wonderful……….
Oops! My mistake It is the New England Cottontail rabbit that is endangered, not the Eastern Cottontail. But they are hard to tell apart.
Chris,
My husband has sort of become a fan of ATK and Cook’s Country because I watch them all the time and he gets to eat the fruit of my labors!
I called him from his computer in the next room to see your photos of Paris. He is also a photographer. He was interested in what kind of camera you were shooting with and what kind of camera has an illustration mode. He does that sometimes in post production but I don’t think his has this mode.
I use it sometimes too but I just shoot. It has so many settings I’m afraid to touch them.