Flours: range of tastes, happiness cereals!

Chickpeas, buckwheat and millet.

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Without it, no bread, pancake, foufou to treat us and share, no more donuts, injera, cream puffs, or tortillas: essential ingredient, flour is one of the first foods of our history.

Since prehistoric times, man discovered that he could grow cereals, crush them and then mix them with water to make a nourishing porridge, first, until the litany of rolls and others today's pancakes.

Flours in the plural, in their diversity and their uses, whether raw, cereals, legumes, roots, plants, fruits, flours are universal!

(Replay of March 6, 2021).

Publicity

Jennifer Hart-Smith

is a pastry chef and naturopath, Franco-Australian.

Health and pastry go hand in hand, and complement each other.

Culinary author, she has published the inspiring “

Pâtisseries Naturelles”

, published by Marabout, “

Wild Therapy”

with Anne Sophie Nardy in self-publishing.

Jennifer organizes online workshops, and trainings.

Her blog

 and on

instagram.

Jennifer Hart-Smith.

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Nathalie Brigaud Ngoum

is a blogger, cook and author of “

Mon Imprécis de cuisine

” in self-publishing, World Gourmand Award 2019. She gives introductory workshops to African cooking and pastry making.

Her blog

 and

on instagram.

Nath Brigaud Ngoum.

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In links:

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 Philippe Guichard

is a farmer in Lot-et-Garonne, a peasant miller.

He works with ancient wheats and a number of cereals and legumes, raw or in flour.

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Building a world with better taste

- Nadia Sammut with Paule Masson photos Anne-Claire Héraud - Actes Sud 2020 - more than a book: a life and community project.

Inspiring!

- KomandSal: flour mill, bakery, gluten-free sourdough pastry, in Cavaillon, in the south of France.

KomandSal

works exclusively with local raw materials.

The brand's products are sold in Paris, Marseille, and online.

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Slices of bread

- Epure editions - 2017

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Flours,

by Jennifer Hart-Smith - Moulin des Moines - 2017

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CERES

magazine

- published by Menu Fretin, a jewel of reports, recipes, portraits of chefs and cereals, a joy to watch and read.

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Wholemeal breads and ancient grains

- Litz Geissler - Ulmer 2018

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The encyclopedia of homemade bread

- Marie-Laure Fréchet - Flammarion

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 Vilain Levain on Instagram

with the podcast for

lovers of sourdough and fermentation.

Valérie Zanon is the author of

Levain,

published by Alternatives.

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Le chant du pain, a small treatise on the art of baking

- by Paul Magnette and Jean-Pierre Gabriel - rebirth of the book 2019.

To listen :

CHINA REPORT Stéphane Lagarde: flour in China

Musical programming

- Pà Pa Pa, 

by Femi Kuti

- Seeds,

by Camille.

RECIPES

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Braided brioche

with sweet potato flour from Ivory Coast,

by Nathalie Brigaud Ngoum - recipe from " 

Mon imprécis de cuisine

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Roasted corn and peanut butter cookies



For 6 people


140 peanuts, 100 g of oatmeal, 55 g of roasted corn flour, ½ tsp of baking powder, 1 tsp of salt, 55 g of organic butter, 90 g of sugar, 3 tbsp of peanut butter, 1 vanilla pod, brown sugar for decoration.


Brown the peanuts in the pan for a few minutes.

Mix them finely with the oat and roasted corn flour.

Add the baking powder and salt to this mixture.

Book.


Mix the sugar, softened butter, and vanilla until the sugar dissolves.

Gradually add the flour mixture, do not overwork the dough.

Leave at least 2 hours in the fridge.


Make small balls with your palms, pour a little brown sugar and crush them lightly.

Space about 10 cm apart on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake 10 to 15 minutes at 200 ° c (th 6-7).


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