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Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini took their taste

for French food and channelled it into a foreign cooking school

the COOK’S

ATELIER

RECIPES MARJORIE TAYLOR & KENDALL SMITH FRANCHINI PHOTOGRAPHY ANSON SMART

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t takes a certain kind of tenacity to actually make

dreams come true. Six years ago, mother Marjorie

Taylor and daughter Kendall Smith Franchini packed

up their lives in Phoenix, Arizona to relocate to

Beaune, in the heart of Burgundy’s wine region,

to open The Cook’s Atelier. The idea of a family

business in France that was part culinary school, kitchen boutique

and occasional restaurant was the dream. Visit them there and

they will lead you on a field trip to local producers, vineyards and

flea markets to share what they cherish: food, family and France.

thecooksatelier.com; @thecooksatelier

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