Recipes From The French Kitchen Of "Bruno, Chief Of Police"

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 2008 journalist Martin Walker published the first of his Bruno, Chief of Police novels. Fifteen books later, the internationally bestselling series continues to delight readers with murder, mystery -- and delicious food.

Walker has called the books a love letter to his adopted home of the Périgord region of southwestern France, where he lives in an old farmhouse with his wife, food writer Julia Watson. Indeed, the tales of Bruno take readers into the rich history of the area and its culinary traditions.

The character of Benoît Courrèges – nicknamed “Bruno” – loves to cook and is perhaps known as much for transforming the bounty of his garden into elaborate meals as his ability to crack a case.

Now Walker and his wife Julia Watson have released a cookbook that brings together many of Bruno’s culinary creations. They join Diane this Thanksgiving week to talk about “Bruno’s Cookbook: Recipes and Traditions from a French Country Kitchen” and share a couple of Bruno's favorite recipes, which you can find on our website, dianerehm.org.

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0:00.0	Hi it's Diane on my mind favorite recipes from Bruno Chief of Police.
0:13.0	In 2008, journalist Martin Walker published the first of his Bruno novels.
0:21.0	Fifteen books later, he continues to delight readers with murder, mystery, and delicious food.
0:31.0	Set in a small village in the French countryside, Walker's best-selling
0:37.0	series takes readers into the rich history of the Paragord region of southwestern France and into the kitchen of its favorite
0:48.8	fictional crime fighter. It's a kind of a love letter to this part of France that I find so beguiling.
0:57.0	Now, he and his wife, Julia Wanton, have released a cookbook that brings together many of Bruno's culinary creations.
1:07.0	They join me just before Thanksgiving to discuss good books and good food.
1:16.0	Martin and Julia, how wonderful to see you both again.
1:21.0	Grand to be back around a broadcasting table with you again, Diane.
1:25.0	I should say.
1:26.7	It's a real treat.
1:28.0	Thank you, Julia.
1:29.7	And Martin, for those of us in the audience who may not remember, you were, of course, a regular
1:39.2	on the Friday News round up on the Diane R Rehn Show way back when, but now you and Julia have moved to France.
1:49.8	And you have a beautiful farm where I have indeed the pleasure of visiting.
1:57.4	In addition, Julia, the English version of your gorgeous cookbook has just been published.
2:07.0	Tell me about how that came to be and why it came to be?
2:13.8	It came to be primarily because when Martin was writing his novels,
2:19.6	he had this wonderful local detective who, a little bit like those masterpiece theatre
2:26.2	midsummer murders was managing to find the solution to more murders than
2:31.6	there were citizens living in his village.
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