This personal guide to the author's favourite French food lists those ingredients and methods of cooking which are quintessentially French. Interspersed with recipes and anecdotes, this fully illustrated book also introduces the reader to the French way of shopping, cooking and dining. Len Deighton is perhaps best known for his spy thrillers such as The Ipcress File and The Billion Dollar Brain. His first collection of French recipes was Ou est le Garlic? (reissued as Basic French Cooking).