Ripailles by Stéphane Reynaud

This is quite possibly the best French cookery book on the market, a book of such beauty you will want to stroke it. 

Inside it's tactile padded cover Ripailles is packed recipes with photography you will just want to pore over. 

A Sunday that begins well must end well. Out comes the boules, the crowd is reassembled, hunting and fishing memories turn into epics, football matches into World Cup finals...It’s a ripailles and it’s good. It’s late, the leftovers have gone, the dregs of the bottles have dried up, the yawns become contagious, the time to say goodbye has come...bring on next Sunday. 

Acclaimed Parisian chef Stéphane Reynaud writes beautiful recipes that combine his passion for traditional French cooking with his enthusiasm for modern cuisine; from simple home cooking to more complex, intricate dishes. 

In Ripailles, which loosely translates into English as ‘feast’, Stéphane presents the very best of the French kitchen and delves into the origins of French cuisine. With a unique and delicious array of recipes, covering entrees and soups, patés and terrines, salads, omelettesand egg dishes, meat, seafood, chicken and vegetables, cheese and wine, plus pastries and desserts, this is the most comprehensive French cooking collection you will find. 

Try the simple soft-boiled eggs with a variety of accompaniments, a delicious cheese souffléor a bowl of warming pumpkin soup, then move on to some more elaborate fare such as beef cheeks

bourguignon, duck breast with blackcurrants and scallops tartare with poppy seeds. There is a selection of desserts to die for, including the upside-down apple tart, lemon meringue pie, baked custard creams, and delicate cinnamon shortbread biscuits. Need a little cheese to finish your bread? Choose from the most decadent selection of barbecued camembert cheese, roasted picodon cheeses and the savoi-style fondue.

Stéphane brings his love and regard for fresh produce to the fore, introducing French producers, regions and techniques throughout Ripailles, uniting the recipes and the source in his own individual way. He provides instructive explanations of origins, varieties, cuts, techniques and useful equipment.

Featuring 299 recipes, captivating internal design and laden with engaging location and food

photography, this is truly a cookbook to treasure. 

StéphaneReynaud is the chef and owner of renowned restaurant Villa 9 Troisin Montreuil, just outside of Paris, France. His acclaimed first cookbook, Pork & Sons, was awarded the 2005 French Gourmand Cookbook Award . Stéphanecomes from a family of pig farmers and butchers and now lives in Paris and Saint-Agrève, a small village in Ardècheregion of France, with his wife and three children. Ripailles is his third cookbook.

Ripailles by Stéphane Reynaud. 

Bon Appetit. 

Mrs White's Swell for Leather - extremely polished polish

Based on a Victorian recipe for waterproofing shoes, this rich, thick paste polish is an absolute dream for nourishing, cleaning and polishing fine leather.

Tested on the sumptuous seats of a vintage Railton, one application summoned up that as-new look from dry, dusty leather which hadn’t been touched for many years. Almost all the linseed oil sold in the UK is produced here, so this polish is around 90% UK-produced. Linseed oil is rich in GLAs, otherwise known as Omega 3, 6, and 9 fatty acids. These nourish the leather in the same way they nourish you, and linseed oil has been used for centuries to keep hides looking like new.

Thanks to our variable climate, British bee products are commonly more concentrated, powerful and fragrant than imported alternatives. They also have less impact on the environment in terms of the miles they travel to get to our venerable boiler. We melt the wax slowly, so the full depth of the wax’s fragrance is preserved, and so the polish is creamy, light, and easy to use.

Handmade in England.

60 ml.

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Dictionary of French Building Terms - c'est magnifique!

'My aunt's feather is on the table,' whilst probably a useful bit of information to some; it is of no use at all when what you are trying to say is 'the oil-fired combination boiler is in the neighbour's dove cot.'

This essential dictionary and phrase book includes every term you need to know when buying, maintaining, renovating or building a home in France. The things they don't teach you at school, or ever really comes up in general conversation. I did A-level and whilst at one stage I could have held my own during a discussion on Truffaut I couldn't tell you one thing about guttering. 

Accessible and comprehensive, it includes the technical words you won’t find in an ordinary dictionary for tools and equipment and every aspect of painting, carpentry, roofing, plumbing and drainage. It also equips you with terminology for planning structural changes such as extensions and determining boundaries.

An appendix of emergency phrases will make this a book you’ll want to keep by the phone at all times. 

Whether you own a home or work in France, this book will help you talk to French tradesmen with authority and avoid costly misunderstandings as you pull down the language barrier brick by brick.

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Mrs White's Domestic Help - the amazing powers of natural, organic lavender

The concentrated fragrance – and the cleansing and deodorising power – of natural organic lavender, captured in a handy spray.

Mrs. White, our Great Grandmother, always used a little lavender oil when dusting; adding a few drops onto her duster before wiping down wood and paintwork. We have decided to share her secret in the form of Mrs. White’s Domestic Help. 

Lavender oil not only smells amazing, but it also has natural antibacterial and grease cutting qualities. It is also a sleep aid so we can’t think of a better way of buffing up your bedstead but it has a million uses, as we've discovered after living with our test cans for a little while, including as a really handy and effective travel hand cleanser for picnics, long journeys and such like.

Not only is Mrs White's Domestic Help fantastic for refreshing woollens, and for spritzing ironing and upholstery, it's also turned out to be a really effective hard surface cleaner, too! 

It degreases and wipes away even ingrained stains quite effortlessly, perfect when that used tea bag has been lingering on the counter or red wine ring when you have been slurping more than stirring at the stove. 

Because lavender is known to be naturally antiseptic, antifungal, antiviral and antibiotic it is the ideal choice to cleanse and freshen the kitchen, bathroom and especially the nursery. You can even use it to spray cuts and grazes in an emergency - and as we've discovered, it makes an effective chemical and aluminium-free underarm deodorant, too. Cold on a chilly morning, though!

Good grief somebody should bottle this stuff and sell it!

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The Roulliers of Peckham & Camberwell

I am posting this as I would love to hear about my family’s history, hopefully back to its Huguenot beginnings. I get regular emails from Roulliers all over the world, it seems apart from me, we are are taken the clan to the four corners of the Earth.

I am a Roullier on my maternal side, my mother’s family home on East Dulwich Grove, opposite Alleyn’s School, was destroyed during the war. My Grandfather, Richard Roullier, was a volunteer fireman and was killed by a bomb dropped on his fire station at around the same time. With him, and the house, all our family records were destroyed. Grace, my Grandmother who eventually remarried, never discussed her routes much with me, and my mother’s memories are very sketchy. My Grandmother died a longtime ago.

To me it is strange that my branch of the Roullier family, as probable lace makers, never settled in the East End but instead chose rural Peckham & Camberwell, which was then in Surrey, where they appear to have flourished.

The first Roullier to arrive in the area was Jean Alphonsus Ferdinandus Roullier who left France and settled in Peckham around 1790. I know my Grandfather was a cabinet-maker but that is about all, the bits in between are very blurred.

My mother married my father, Robert John William White from Peckham Rye, whom she met at the Grafton Ballroom in Dulwich Village, at Saint Barnabus Church. Their first flat was in Camberwell Grove and I was born a few years later at St Giles Hospital, being baptized at St Giles Church. The same church in which the original émigré, we believe from whom all the Bristish Roulliers are decended, Jean Alphonsus Ferdinandus married Johanna Francisca Daspa on March 20th 1805.

I haven’t moved far! Just to East Dulwich, down Dog Kennel Hill. So called as that is where they kenneled the dogs for the Surrey hunt.

Kicten compost pail with charcoal filters

We all want to recycle, but we face daily challenges, only thing preventing us from doing so is the prospect of some rather unattractive smells.
The brand new Compost Pail from Roullier White is the perfect solution for recycling food waste -the generous size bin comes complete with carbon filters inside the lid to keep your kitchen odour free. Its tight fitting lid makes it insect and pest proof and the practical handle makes it easy to carry out to your compost bin when full.
Made from high quality stainless steel, which will not rust, the Compost Pail is dishwasher safe and sits neatly on the worktop or under the sink.
Ideal for vegetable cuttings, tea bags, coffee grounds, egg shells and much more.
Comes with two replaceable carbon filters which last for 4 - 6 months.
22 x 18 cm.

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Love lobster? Shell out on these wonderful French seafood bibs from Roullier White

Lobster and chips with garlic mayonnaise and Black Velvets. 

• Place lobsters in boiling water for 5 minutes.
  
• Preheat your grill. 
  
• Cut the lobster in half from head to tail and remove the white sac in the head, the stomach, the green liver, intestines and any coral roe. 
  
• Arrange lobster halves, flesh side up, on a Roullier White Lodge Logic health grill and grill for 2 minutes.
  
• Ease the meat away from shell with a knife and cut into bite-size pieces. 
• Douse with butter or olive oil and grill for a further 2 minutes, basting from time to time.

Serve with chips, we love the chips from the Sea Cow, and garlic mayonnaise and a glass or two of Black Velvets (equal parts Guinness and Champagne).

Clicke here to order your pack of 6 Bavette Cristacés

Six generously sized pure cotton lobster bibs 

50 x 50 cms

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Mrs White's Truly Triumphant Trifle in a trifle

Our Granny, Mrs White, made this trifle for the Silver Jubilee and we are still celebrating!

• 1 Swiss Roll, the idea behind a trifle is to use your old stale cake, but buy a delicious fresh Swiss Roll from the East Dulwich Deli
• 1 packet raspberry jelly
• Raspberries - or you could make it with cherries - but its a bit more work stoning them, and cherry brandy. Yum
• 500 ml custard
• 150 ml Cointreau
• Bonne Maman or Wendy Brandon's raspberry jam - East Dulwich Deli has Wendy Brandon's joyful jams
• Toasted flaked almonds
• Amaretti biscuits from the East Dulwich Deli
• Lots of lovely clotted cream
• Really good 70% dark chocolate from SMBS Foods

Crumble the Swiss Roll into the bottom of your Roullier White trifle bowl and spoon on lots of jam, don't eat it all though
Pour over the Cointreau
Add the raspberries
Prepare the jelly and pour over the contents of your Roullier White trifle bowl
Pop in the fridge to set, have a Cointreau or two
Crumble on lots of Amaretti biscuits
Pour on the custard
Spread on the clotted cream
Sprinkle with the almonds and grate on chocolate
Voila! A jubilant and truly triumphant trifle in a trifle
Buy one of our Roullier White trilfe bowls here or pop into our East Dulwich store
Roullier White
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East Dulwich
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Happy St.Valentine's Day

Love in Black Creed's sensational new scent - the perfect gift for St Valentine's Day

Last Spring the House of Creed released its most successful fragrance to date, ‘Love in White’, to wide critical acclaim.
Roullier White welcomes the launch of her sister fragrance ‘Love In Black’, a mirror image, with the emphasis firmly on seduction rather than innocence. This sophisticated woman’s fragrance opens with the heady aroma of White Violets, sensual, feminine and beguiling, more than a little theatrical and utterly glamorous Virginian Cedar provides a woody note, warm and sensuous. Florentine Iris adds a little powder and Cloves a little spice, with delicious notes of Bourgogne Blackcurrant, Rose and traditional Violets from Grasse at the base. The dry-down takes around 20 minutes. A little black dress, a slash of damson lipstick, luminous porcelain skin - think Theda Bara, Mata Hari and Pola Negri all rolled into one - the ultimate seductress.
Please call us on 020 8693 5150 with your order and will despatch for next day delivery
free of charge or email us with your number and we will call you straight back.
info@roullierwhite.com

On our Night Stand; Corvus by Esther Woolfson

A Radio 4 book of the week and an absolute joy from cover to cover. When I finished it I felt as though a dear friend had moved away.

As my bedroom overlooks Peckham Rye Common, home to a huge murder of crows - and indeed that is the correct collective noun, I checked with the Crow Society, although there is also the less poetic horde - this book had particular pertinence for me. 

Esther Woolfson has been fascinated by corvids, the bird group that includes crows, rooks, magpies and ravens, since her daughter rescued a fledgling rook sixteen years ago. That rook - named Chicken - has lived with the family ever since. Other birds have also taken their place in the household - a magpie, starling, parrot and the inhabitants of an outdoor dove house. But above all, it has been the corvids (a talking magpie named Spike, Chicken the rook, and, recently, a baby crow named Ziki) that she has formed the closest attachments with, amazed by their intelligence, personality and capacity for affection.

Living with birds has allowed Woolfson to learn aspects of bird behaviour, which would otherwise have been impossible to know - the way they happily become part of the structure of a family, how they communicate, their astonishing empathy. We hear about Chicken's fears and foibles: her hatred of computers and other machines and her love of sitting on Woolfson's knee in the evening and having her neck scratched; the birds' elaborate bathing rituals, springtime broodiness, and tendency to cache food in the most unlikely places.

Woolfson tells the darker story of way corvids have always been objects of superstition and persecution; and with the lightest of touches, she weaves in the science of bird intelligence, evolution, song and flight throughout. Her account of her experiences is funny, touching and beautifully written, and gives fascinating insights into the closeness human beings can achieve with wild creatures.

Love Food - St Valentine's Day Feasts Made Easy

The absolute last thing one wants when organizing a romantic, and seductive, dinner for two is the proverbial headache. This fail-safe and stress-free Valentine’s menu is guaranteed to warm the cockles of your loved one’s heart - or vice versa! Using only ingredients that are aphrodisiacs, these simple recipes will excite more than just the taste buds!

Although aphrodisiacs have been the subject of folklore since Aphrodite first put her lovely name to them, scientists are substantiating the belief that there really are certain in-the-mood foods. Italian pharmacists recently discovered that oysters contain compounds that are effective in releasing mood enhancing hormones. Long before this breakthrough Casanova is said to have eaten 50 raw oysters every morning to help him maintain his momentum.

To start your feast what could be easier than a plate of raw Galway Bay oysters from Sopers, the famous fishmongers in Nunhead? Allow 6 oysters each and serve with plenty of lemon and Tabasco sauce on a bed of crushed ice. Sparing any unnecessary Valentine’s Day massacres Sopers will even shuck your oysters for you. Moxons on Lorsdship Lane has delicious cultivated oysters from Colchester at only 65 pence each. Both are much more ecologically sound than the commercially dredged versions.

Other mineral rich seafood, such as scallops, rate high on the aphrodisiac scale: containing selenium, zinc, phosphorus and iodine. For your main course flash fry scallops, one minute each side, in hot butter. Moxon’s Cornish scallops are tastier than supermarket alternatives – look for the coral coloured roe, which falls off when scallops are frozen. Pile your scallops on a vitamin-rich bed of pea puree. The humble pea, believe it or not, is name checked in the Perfumed Garden - the 16th Century treatise on the art of love – as an ancient arouser. Meat-eaters can garnish with a rasher or two of crispy, smoky bacon. For the pea puree simply boil two mugs of frozen peas in a little salted water: strain, add butter and blitz with a hand held blender.

A glass of Champagne always melts the ice, however, mixed in equal proportions with Guinness you have a fortified, iron-rich (iron helps to move the chi) Black Velvet, a cocktail that will fuel the flames of passion.

Bring fresh fruit to the table in Roullier White’s heart-shaped dishes and dip in molten Green and Black’s white chocolate from SMBS Foods; spice them up with a sprinkle of cinnamon.

Finally snuggle up with delicious homemade Gilded Cherry Nipple chocolates from Hope & Greenwood and a glass of Amaretto Disaronno, the intoxicating apricot kernel content of which is referred to in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Pop into Roullier White's East Dulwich Store, 125 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London SE22 8HU for oyster forks and crystal champagne flutes or shop online at www.roullierwhite.com