Daniele mazet delpeuch wiki

As you watch actress Catherine Frot remove and slice the salmon-stuffed cabbage in the film Haute Cuisine, it seems like an impossibly gorgeous and complicated dish -- steaming and gorgeously layered with the pinkish-orange fish and the warm green of the cabbage leaves.

Beautiful? Perhaps. Difficult?

Daniele mazet delpeuch wiki

Not really, says Daniele Mazet-Delpeuch, upon whose life the French import, opening today in limited release (9/20/13), is based.

"Stuffed cabbage is very simple -- but instead of stuffing, you use salmon and seasoning," she says, sipping a glass of water in the lobby of New York's Algonquin Hotel.

"I gave them a list of recipes for the film and this one is so simple: a layer of salmon, then a layer of cabbage and so on. You tie it up and you poach it -- so simple. You cook it in a broth, because salmon cannot go long being cooked in an oven."

The petite, compact Mazet-Delpeuch, in her early 70s, is in town to talk about Haute Cuisine, a film loosely based on two of h