Plot Synopsis

Cooking in her own kitchen, host Rachel Khoo updates authentic French dishes with a British spin, while venturing outside her apartment to explore France's unique culinary traditions and create new dishes with celebrated French chefs. Whether picnicking by the Seine, hosting tea parties or cooking intimate food for an intimate dinner, Rachel presents a modern and well-rounded portrait of French food. In these 30-minute episodes, Rachel prepares a croque madame, wonderful madeleine cakes, beef Bourguignon, chocolate sponge oozing with salted caramel, an unusual cake made from pistachio and goat's cheese, cassoulet, sticky chicken coated with a delicate lavender and lemon glaze, zesty grapefruit and pepper meringue tartlets, iles flottantes, and much more. Plus, Rachel visits these locations: shops in the Moroccan part of the capital's oldest food market; the city's rooftops to find honey created by Parisian bees; an award-winning Parisian cheese shop; Rungis, the world's largest wholesale food market, to produce steak tartare; the French seaside town of Trouville, where a local fisherman treats her to succulent scallops in a creamy mustard mayonnaise; and one of Paris's finest street markets, where she encounters Joel Thiebault, the French "King of Vegetables. Cooking Channel aired the U.S. premiere of this series on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 2:30pm ET.