

She ran a cooking school in France, and owned a farm-to-table restaurant, The Three Sisters’ Café, with her two sisters in the U.S. She attended Le Cordon Bleu and La Varenne cooking schools in Paris and the Académie du Vin, worked for the GaultMillau restaurant guide and CityGuides in France and Paris and for Gannett Company in the U.S., and collaborated on Le tour du monde en 80 pains / Around the World with 80 Breads with Jean-Philippe de Tonnac in France André Raboud, Sculptures 2002-2009 in Switzerland Ma Cuisine Méditerranéenne with Christophe Certain in France, At the Table: Food and Family around the World with Ken Albala, and a biography of French chef Pierre Gagnaire. Jonell Galloway grew up on Wendell Berry and food straight from a backyard Kentucky garden. Translated by Jonell Galloway, from Lettres de l’année 1671 It had all the desired effects: this is why I find it so pleasant. I ate some more yesterday just to get a little nourishment and to help me fast until evening. I ate some the day before yesterday to help me digest my dinner and enjoy my supper. “I wanted to reconcile myself with chocolate. “Chocolate, what can we say about it? Aren’t you afraid you’ll burn your very blood? All these miraculous effects, do they not hide something obscure?” Letter of October 25, 1671, when Madame de Sévigné’s daughter, who was pregnant, continued to follow her mother’s earlier words of advice:

A week ago I suffered from 16 hours of colic that gave me an acute kidney infection.” “I beg you, my dear soul, my beautiful, to not eat any more chocolate.

A thousand times I have thought: she has no chocolatier near her, poor child. “You’re not feeling well, did you not sleep? Chocolate will make you feel yourself again. In her letter of February 11, 1671, to her ailing daughter, Madame de Grignan, she wrote: Known often as simply Madame de Sévigné, she was known for her love of chocolate, although her letters of 1671 reveal that she sometimes had a love-hate relationship with it. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, born the Marquise de Sévigné, was one of France’s most prolific letter writers of the seventeenth century. What to Eat in France: Marquise de Sévigné on Chocolate
