Burgundy — the wine region of eastern France, home to Romanée-Conti, Gevrey-Chambertin, and Chablis — produces a cooking tradition in which the wine is not an ingredient alongside others but the primary medium through which flavour is achieved. Boeuf bourguignon, coq au vin, and escargots à la bourguignonne are the canonical preparations; each demonstrates the technique of wine as the cooking liquid that simultaneously seasons, colours, and provides the acid that makes long-braised preparations complex rather than merely rich.
The defining techniques of Burgundian cooking.
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