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BBC.co. UK slash Radio 4. www Quintessential Paris, a woman at a market store, full of that French self-confidence around food that we Anglos expect.

Critically eyeing what looks to me as gleaming and fresher

display of fish as you could find.

Today we're telling a story of food, family and fashion, perisianly romantic in some ways, and yet not at all what I expected.

A mullet, a mullet, thank you.

See I haven't shot for fish in Ireland or England for 25 years.

This is the person who's revolutionized what it means to be a cook in France, a country still notorious

for its gastronomic chauvinism. Tristairn is female and not French. She's not a household name here, even in Northern Ireland, the country

where she grew up, but in France it's different. Since she wrote her first book 15 years ago,

Trish-Dissen has sold more than a million cookbooks and been

named as one of the most influential women in the country.

The book is not from a French woman, but for a Irish woman, so it's very weird.

I learn French cooking in that book.

Trish was the first who have written a cookbook without to be a chef that's why maybe we

we love her you love her yes you don't just like you know we love her really

France which still sees itself as the gastronomic capital of the world, has been changing its cooking ways,

following the lead of a foreigner.

It's a success which still battles Trish-de-Cen herself.

I hope you're going to ask other people about me because I don't know. I can't, look, I don't know why really I have theories but you know you need to

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