Celebrate Bastille Day With French Cuisine

Channel your inner Julia Child with this buttery crepes fines sucrées recipe with strawberries marinated in orange liqueur.

The French certainly know how to do bread right. Case in point: the elegant pain d'epi, a baguette that resembles a flowering wheat stalk and also happens to be easy to pull apart.

The macaron has made its way stateside in recent years, but with its delicate composition, sophisticated flavorings, and quaint disposition, this pastry still represents everything we love about France.

It may be Summer, but we believe that a hot bowl of French onion soup is a perfect food for any season, especially considering its fast cook time.

Move over, German potato salad! This French fingerling potato salad is delightfully fit for a picnic.

Nothing says French cuisine like the iconic tuna nicoise salad. It originated in the town of Nice and is made with boiled new potatoes, steamed baby green beans, boiled eggs, local olives, and more classic favorites.

A beautiful French bistro sandwich with an oven-toasted egg, paté, and gruyère ready in 15 minutes? Sounds perfect to us.

A pan bagnat sandwich has all the ingredients you love in a nicoise, tucked into a handheld treat.

The French call it navarin d'agneau printanier, but I call this classic French stew of young lamb and vegetables simply delicious.