Today’s post is coordinated with my friend David’s current Cocoa & Lavender post. David and I each chose a recipe from Provence Food and Wine: The Art of Living, a new cookbook by François Millo and Viktorija Todorovska. I went with the main meal and David went with dessert, a Tarte au Citron. “Bouillabaisse is a party,” said Viktorija Todorovska*. “It creates a party.” Yes it does! This luscious “fish stew” may have come from humble origins–it was a “plat des pauvres,” said François Millo**. But, today, the very word is much more likely to conjure up festivity, celebration, and fun. It certainly did for our guests! The table is set for bouillabaisse. Photo by W.T. Manfull Back in March, when a blanket of snow covered all of New England and temperatures hadn’t climbed higher than freezing for weeks, I attended a rosé tasting organized by the Provence Wine Council. It was like a beacon of hope in the middle of a polar vortex (otherwise known as Boston), signaling that the warm sun would surely return to New England (and to Provence, too, where it was also pretty cold). Provence in the City: New York (I attended this tasting,too.) Photo by W.T. [...]