300: Plat du Jour - French Dinners Made Easy w/Susan Herrmann Loomis

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

France, food, seasonally fresh produce.

American expat cookbook author Susan Herrmann Loomis has just released a new cookbook and it is good. Deliciously good. Plat du Jour: French Dinners Made Easy was just released on January 12th, and I excitedly welcomed it into my cookbook library.

Today, Susan returned to join me on the podcast to talk about her new cookbook. Sharing the inspiration for the book, the history of the phrase Plat du Jour, recipes to enjoy during the middle of winter, much more along with another Petit Plaisir that will remind us all how powerfully delicious waiting for something delicious can be.

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0:00.0	Thank you for tuning in to the simple sophisticated podcast, the show that is part of the simply luxurious life online destination.
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0:26.0	content, and the reader's favorite regular weekly post, This and That, which goes live on the blog every
0:32.0	Friday. Now to today's episode. Welcome to the simple sophisticated podcast where intelligent living is paired
0:49.9	with signature style. I'm your host Shannon Ables and whether you're listening
0:55.0	on your commute, exercising, working in the garden or sitting down with a hot cup of tea
1:00.3	or a cafe a l'er thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 300th episode of the simple
1:23.0	sophisticated and I cannot think of a better way to celebrate the 300th
1:27.6	episode than by inviting a guest onto the show who has
1:32.4	inspired me in so many different ways and I have a
1:34.9	feeling you as well when it comes to food and France. I'm talking about my
1:39.4	guest Susan Hermann Loomis and she will be joining us to talk about her new cookbook which came out on January 12th, 2021 and let me just say it is one to have and enjoy and use and you will return to it again and again. We'll talk about why in our conversation today.
1:57.5	So let me just paint a picture for you.
2:00.5	I had the opportunity, as many of you know to cook in Susan's kitchen in Louvier as
2:07.6	well as once in Portland and when I went to Louuvier in the summer of 2019, I walked in for the first dinner, the welcome
2:18.8	dinner.
2:19.8	It was dusk, this is in Normandy and northern France into her courtyard. Her turquoise bistrosette is set up with savory olive cookies to nibble on, fresh French radishes from the market, flaky sea salt,
2:39.0	salted butter, and the glasses of crisp white wine.
2:44.2	The Notre Dame Cathedral is right behind her house
2:48.2	and the silhouette and the shadows that it creates
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