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French Provincial Cooking: The Regional Intelligence

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French Provincial Cooking (1960) is David's definitive work — a documentation of regional French cooking that predates and in many ways surpasses Julia Child's approach in its specificity and culinary intelligence. David's technical contribution is the documentation of the specific techniques of specific regions: the Provençal approach to garlic is not the same as the Norman approach; the Gascon use of duck fat differs from the Burgundian use of butter. Regional identity is technique.

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A framework for understanding that French cooking is not a single tradition but a collection of distinct regional techniques defined by geography, climate, and available fat — each region having developed approaches optimised for its specific ingredients.

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—Spanish regional fat map (same principle — Catalan olive oil vs Castilian lard vs Galician butter), Italian regional fat map (same — Northern butter vs Southern olive oil), Indian regional fat map (sa
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