A Fresh, New Take on Traditional, Home-cooked Favorites — With the Distinctive Taste of French Cheese

What is Comfort Cuisine? Elegance with a Taste of Home

You’ll love what we’ve done to your favorite comfort foods! The Comfort Cuisine Recipe Collection is a fresh, new take on traditional, home-cooked favorites. These recipes take full advantage of the distinctive, savory richness of French cheese, or fromage, resulting in dishes that are at once familiar and unexpectedly elegant — Comfort Cuisine.

Perfected by The Culinary Institute of America

CIA Chef Scott Samuel

The Comfort Cuisine Recipe Collection was created by The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) as a service to The Cheeses of France. CIA Chef Scott Samuel chose just the right French cheeses for each recipe in this special collection in an effort to bring the savory, sophistication of fromage to everyday cooking and entertaining.

The Comfort Cuisine Recipe Collection — Just Add Fromage!

Comfort Cuisine transforms ordinary pizzas, casseroles, burgers and other comfort foods into extraordinary cuisine using the abundant variety of distinctive French cheeses available in most supermarkets and cheese shops.

From fresh to aged, soft to hard, triple crème to bleu, it’s amazing what a little fromage will do! Here’s just a taste of the recipes that will reinvent tradition in your kitchen:

• Grilled Camembert Sandwiches: Flavorful, recipe-friendly Camembert makes the ultimate grilled cheese.
• Bleu Burger d’Ambert: Pair a Pinot or your favorite Syrah with that burger...knife and fork optional.
• Macaroni and Fromage Rustique: Cantal transforms traditional Mac & Cheese into a brand new favorite.
• Gratin au Comté: You haven’t tasted potatoes until you’ve tried this elegant comfort-inspired pairing.
• And so many, many more!

Comfort Cuisine Recipe Instructional Videos

Your own private tutorial from the Culinary Institute of America. Accompany Chef Scott Samuel and French cheese and wine expert Madame de Fromage, Colette Hatch, as they take viewers through the preparation of each recipe in the Comfort Cuisine collection.

Step-by-step demonstrations, hosted from the CIA Greystone kitchen in Napa Valley, accompany every delicious Comfort Cuisine dish. Each video provides insider information on flavor profiles, ingredients, presentation, and pairing ideas. What’s the bluing in Fourme d’Ambert? What cheese provides the personality in a flawless fondue?