At number 41 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Franco-American friendship

is celebrated every day around a dining table, sampling the best that

French and American cuisine have to offer when they join forces.

From the time of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson - America's first

ambassadors to France - to their present-day counterparts, it has been

a particularly happy marriage of culinary and cultural traditions.

Executive chef Philippe Excoffier, who has presided over the kitchen

at the American Ambassador's Residence for the past decade, shares forty

seasonal recipes that combine American flair with French gastronomy

and offer inspiration for refined entertaining.