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| Chef Xavier Btesh |
Filipinos are more adventurous now more than ever
when it comes to food. We all have our favourite international cuisine. As for
me, I am partial to French cuisine. I would often imagine myself dining in one
of those fancy coffee shops in Paris. Unfortunately, travelling to the City of
Lights seems to be a far-fetched dream for someone like me. Hence, the next
best thing would either be to dine in hard-to-pronounce French fine dining
restaurants or buy a cookbook by Chef Xavier Btesh called “French Kusina: French
and Mediterranean Cooking Made Easy for the Filipino Kitchen. If you ask me,
I’d certainly go for the latter because it’s the more practical choice.
My mother recently attended the Maya Kitchen
Culinary Elite Series on m behalf with none other than Chef Xavier Btesh. Born
and raised in Paris, chef Xavier had his career training under the tutelage of
renowned chefs before he was able to establish himself as consultant chef and be able to come up with his own cookbook
called Les Petits Diners de Xavier which sold more than 40,000 copies across
Europe.
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| French Kusina by Chef Xavier Btesh |

