Simply Gourmand Weekly Newsletter

We're celebrating summer with 15% off everything peach and apricot in our store! Enter the code SUMMER at checkout.

Our peach and apricot selection includes nectars and other beverages, cookies, preserves, fruit jellies, lollipops, a culinary essence, and even soaps. Plenty to delight you with summer flavors and scents!

Enjoy the season. Take good care of yourself.

Marianne Prébet
Owner & Gourmand-in-Chief

This month's deals: 15% OFF everything peach and apricot (code SUMMER)

Just in: more French favorites

Among the French favorites recently added to our shelves you will find Edmond Fallot tarragon Dijon mustard, Martin-Pouret Orleans white wine vinegar with shallots, Melfor vinaigrette, Brets potato chips in two new flavors — pesto & mozzarella and cep, Bonne Maman apple sauce with vanilla, Guyaux Eiffel Tower–shaped chocolates, and the charming Paris Monumental mug decorated with a 1900 map of the City of Light.

If there is a French treat you would like to find on our website, please share your craving with us.

Suggestions for your French agenda

There is plenty of exciting French cultural events all around America. Enjoy your picks!

Boston's Museum of Fine Arts presents Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits. Through September 7.

Chicago's Art Institute presents Gustave Caillebote: Painting His World. June 29 through October 25.

The Denver Art Museum presents The 19th Century in European and American Art.

Iconic singer-songwriter Alain Souchon is coming to New York! He'll perform with his two sons Pierre and Ours on June 18.

New York's Met Museum presents Sargent & Paris. Through August 3.

L'Alliance New York presents Buy Masterpieces, its new film series, curated by director Wes Anderson. June 3 trough July 1.

The 17th New York edition of Films on the Green, the free annual outdoor French film festival, explores fashion in cinema. Through June 27.

In San Francisco the de Young Museum presents Matisse's "Jazz" Unbound. Through July 27.

In Washington, DC Marc Chagall's magistral Orphée mosaic in on view in the sculpture garden of the National Gallery of Art.

Last but not least, French star comedian Gad Elmaleh is scheduled to perform (in French) in New York on September 10.

Try out our recipe for apricot cake

A flavorful, irresistibly moist summer cake!

Ingredients (serves 8)
1½ lb fresh apricots, halved and pitted
1 Tbsp lemon juice
½ cup butter, at room temperature
¾ cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 large eggs
2 cups all purpose flour
3 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
2 Tbsp powdered sugar, for serving

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C) and grease the bottom and sides of a 9-inch spring form pan with baking spray or butter. Set aside.

Using a food processor, blender, or immersion blender, purée half of the apricots with the lemon juice and set aside.

Quarter the remaining apricots and set aside.

In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together at medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 4–5 minutes.

Add eggs, one at a time. Then add vanilla extract and beat until combined.

In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add to the mixture and beat until just combined.

Add puréed apricots to the batter and beat until just combined.

Transfer batter to the prepared spring form pan. Distribute the quartered apricots evenly on top of the batter and bake for 55–60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean with only a few crumbs attached.

Let cool, then dust with powdered sugar.