The Little Paris Kitchen
| The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo | |
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| Genre | Cooking |
| Directed by | Ed St Giles |
| Presented by | Rachel Khoo |
| Theme music composer | Samuel Sim |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production company(s) | Plum Pictures |
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| Original network | BBC Two |
| Original release | 19 March – 23 April 2012 |
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| Related shows | Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook; Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: London |
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| Official website | www |
The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo is a television cookery program starring food writer and cook Rachel Khoo which broadcast on BBC Two in the UK during March to April 2012. The programme follows Khoo from her tiny kitchen in Paris, France as she introduces the audience to 'French food cooked simply, like Parisians do at home'.
Rachel Khoo, alumna of Le Cordon Bleu, welcomes the audience to the smallest, two-person restaurant in Paris, cooks a number of classic French dishes in her tiny flat in Belleville, Paris and introduces the viewer to "French food the way Parisians cook and eat it".
John Crace of The Guardian described the first episode of The Little Paris Kitchen as "an uneasy mishmash: the format was, too; like so many other cooking programmes, it tried to cram in a bit of forced travelogue to add local colour". In another review of the first episode, Christopher Hooten wrote that "Khoo’s girl-in-the-big-city charm and hearty recipes make this series difficult to dislike" and also commented that the show spliced recipes with images of Paris.
Rachel introduces us to her eponymous kitchen and her apartment's two-cover restaurant by making her version of the French classic croque madame. She visits the Moroccan part of Paris's oldest food market in search of mint and explores the rooftop of the Grand Palais to source local honey created by Parisian bees for her madeleines.
Featured recipes:
- Croque madame muffins
- Navarin d'agneau printanier - spring lamb stew
- Coq au vin barbecue sticks
Rachel meets Christophe Vasseur, a master Parisian baker, and learns the secret of shaping baguettes. She puts a British twist on her oeufs en cocotte (eggs in pots) by serving them in teacups and creates a chocolate pudding, filled with salted caramel.
Featured recipes:
- Chouquettes - sugar topped choux pastries
- Truite en papillote - trout in a parcel
- Oeufs en Cocotte - eggs in pots
- Boeuf bourguignon with baguette dumplings
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