Hugo makes a delicious summer salad filled with fresh ingredients: all kinds of tomato varieties, lots of herbs from his garden, and even some grilled peaches. Enjoy!

A chef deserves the best equipment in the kitchen, and so does the home cook! Chef Philippe Etchebest will help you choose the right pan for the right purpose.

Hugo finishes preparing the falafels and cooks them to perfection: crispy on the outside and ultra-soft on the inside. You'll be dying to take a bite!

Hugo will show you how to make falafel from scratch. Don't worry, it's not hard as it seems. Follow his instructions carefully and they should not fall apart and end up looking like "falafails."

We continue our overview of small cooking utensils, from basic to specialized ones, including some with colorful names. Can you guess what un cul de poule (literally, "a chicken bottom") is used for?

Let's talk small essential kitchen utensils with chef Philippe Etchebest. In the process you will enrich your French vocabulary. Can you guess what kind of utensil une araignée is?

Simon and his mother are making pain perdu (literally "lost bread") or French toast. Listen to their conversation as they putter around the kitchen. In the process, you will learn a wealth of kitchen-related vocabulary.

Sophie shares her simple recipe for delicious, organic madeleines. Try it at home!

Sophie and Patrice discuss the weather as they shop at the market on a miserable winter day. Sophie detests the cold and the rain whereas Patrice doesn't mind at all!

In this video, you'll learn how to make a bûche de Noël, or Yule log, the traditional Christmas dessert in France. Give it a try!

Over the summer, wanting a light lunch, Lionel made some cheese-filled crêpes. They turned out much heavier than he expected, but they were delicious nonetheless.

Sophie shares her grandmother's crêpe recipe with us. If you're game, you can make the crêpes by feel, without measuring anything, just like her ancestors used to do. Good luck and bon appétit!

Sophie and Patrice are trying to recover from the Christmas festivities and can't stand the sight of foie gras, turkey, or Yule logs... They consider doing away with the Christmas tradition of big feasts altogether and escaping to the tropics instead.

What's the difference between tapenade and olive paste? What needs to be done to olives to make them consumable? Find out in this video!

Learn all about olives with this olive merchant from Nice. This lovely store, "La Maison de l'Olive," has all kinds of olive delicacies from the region and across the Mediterranean basin. Did you know that the olive groves (oliveraies) in the Nice region were planted by the Greeks?