An American sits down to lunch with a Frenchman in Paris and never goes home again, recipes included
A love story with recipes
Elizabeth Bard, a young American living in London, went to Paris for a weekend and had lunch with a handsome Frenchman named Gwendal. She never really went back. Her memoir tells how she built a new life in France, with all the joys and confusions of love, a foreign language and a new family, and how she learned to cook her way into belonging. Each chapter ends with recipes.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who love Paris, food memoirs and charming stories about building a life in another country.
What you will get
A sweet, cozy memoir about falling in love with a man, a city and its food, with dozens of simple French-inspired recipes to try at home.
Lunch in Paris Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Nonfiction · Memoir · Paris · Recipes
Length
352 pages · ≈ 10 h
More about this book
Elizabeth Bard was living in London when she visited Paris for a weekend and sat down to lunch with Gwendal, a charming young Frenchman. The meal, and the conversation, changed her plans. Within a short time she had moved into his small Paris apartment, with its tiny kitchen, and begun the long process of becoming at home in a city she had admired from a distance.
The book follows the ups and downs of that adjustment. Bard describes shopping at the open-air markets and learning to talk with vendors, cooking for her new French in-laws, the paperwork of living abroad, the pull of family back in America, and planning a wedding that blends two cultures. Food is the thread through everything: a perfect roast chicken, chocolate desserts, simple soups, salads and stews that mark particular moments in the story. At the end of each chapter come the recipes, written in a relaxed, home-cook style. The tone is light, honest and often funny about her mistakes.
A comforting read for an afternoon with tea. About 352 pages in paperback, followed by Picnic in Provence.
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Mary Berry's Baking Bible
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Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book
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