There can't be a better and healthier lunch in spring than a salad with a freshly baked baguette! Anina Belle is back to teach you all about making your own baguettes at home in an online demo. Her husband, French Chef Sébastien Giannini, will join to show one of his all-time favorite recipes from the French Riviera, salade niçoise (his secret is basil!).

You will be pleasantly surprised how easy and fun making baguettes at home can be. As Anina Belle says: "I can wake up on a Saturday morning at 7am and, with a few ingredients and minimal intervention, have fresh baked crusty artisanal baguettes on the table for the family by 9am. There is nothing better than putting crusty, hot baguettes out on the table with some butter and jam..." or have it accompany a salad! Join us for this online "Taste of France" event on Saturday, May 21.

Baguettes for beginners recipe: lechefswife.com/baking-baguettes-for-beginners/.

Salade Niçoise recipe: lechefswife.com/french-salade-nicoise-recipe/.

This event will be in English with a lot of French words and expressions. Free for members of Alliance Française of Washington. Please RSVP to receive your join link.

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Anina Belle Giannini is a Canadian/American hotelier, writer and passionate home cook. She lives with her husband, Chef Sébastien Giannini, their daughter, Valentina, and baby son, Pierre, in McLean, Virginia.

Anina Belle met her husband during a University exchange to the French Riviera in her early twenties. They were married in Nice and lived 8 delicious years in the South of France before her career in luxury hospitality, as a sales and marketing leader for hotel brands such as Le Meridien, Ritz-Carlton and Four Seasons, moved the couple to Montreal, QC and then to Washington, DC.

Le Chef's Wife blog was born in 2018 out of lifelong passion for food, travel and cooking as well as a love of writing and photography. Cooking at home with her husband, an internationally renowned Chef, taught Anina Belle the tips and tricks that she enjoys sharing with the readers of her blog. “I see myself as a translator” says Anina Belle. “I translate the wealth of knowledge my husband has in French Cooking, learned over a career that started at age 14 working 16 hour days in Michelin starred restaurants, and boil it down it in a way that busy people in home kitchens (like me) can use and enjoy”

In 2019 Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC published Anina Belle’s first children's story book, "Fiona at the Four Seasons" and she is currently working on "Le Chef's Baby", a series of children's books that teach good food habits from a young age. Her work in recipe development and food writing has been published in Edible DC Magazine and District Fray Magazine.

Follow @lechefswife on Instagram or visit www.lechefswife.com for easy to make French recipes and tips for living a French Riviera inspired life in the USA.