Mange to Basta! My Pasta Freska Experience.
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We joined two other friends there for dinner at the beginning of February, both of whom had been there before. Then a few months ago, the opportunity presented itself and my husband and I jumped on it. The French Laundry restaurant in Yountville, Calif. But actually dining at the restaurant felt like something out of reach. The elitist touch was added by the French Laundry being an opulent, super expensive restaurant in the Napa Valley wine country. Eventually I realized what the French Laundry was, bought the book, read it cover to cover, and even cooked from it. And then I walked away, thinking there was no way a book like that would ever be practical. For the next half hour I pored over its pages, gawking at the beautiful photographs of dishes that were so different than anything I’d seen before. Wait, a cookbook that didn’t show food on the cover? Huh. Then the title puzzled me, ‘The French Laundry Cookbook’. An elegantly folded napkin neatly held together by a wooden clothespin placed on a plate against a white background.
The minimalist cover was what caught my eye. It was years ago, while browsing the book aisle, that I came across a large tome in the cookbook section. Costco is not something that one would normally think of as being associated with The French Laundry but it was there that I had my first encounter with the famous restaurant.
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