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Lunch in Paris: A Delicious Love Story, with Recipes
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A delicious look at life in Paris, through the eyes of an American lady named Elizabeth who falls for a Frenchman called Gwendal and then moves to Paris to be with him.
Paris at first is not the romantic city she thought and life in the Paris not in the travel books is a little more difficult than she could have imagined. When she packed her bags for a new life, she wasn’t expecting two love affairs – one with the city and one with Gwendal himself. Discovering it the right way, through food, markets and all kinds of tasty treats, Elizabeth dives in the only way she knows how – to discover PAris via its food, delectable aromas and mouth watering cuisine.
Travel Guide
Lunch in Paris? What would you like Madame, Monsieur? Maybe a steak au poivre with a glass of red? What about a fresh crispy baguette with cheese?
The real Paris is a wander around open air markets, bistros, women with flat chests, gutting fish with the help of Jane Austen and finds a butcher who looks like Matt Damon. If there is one way to describe Paris and to really get underneath its skin, then discovering it and finding out what makes it tick via the food is the only way to go.
The discovery is helped via recipes from French home cooking, inspired by her favourite restaurants, French friends and relatives who shared their traditional meals. But oh! The French version of Death by Chocolate!
The chocolate centre flows like dark lava onto the whiteness of the plate. The last ounce of stress drains from my body… I have discovered the French version of Death by Chocolate.
Peppered with recipes, each chapter focuses on various events in Elizabeth’s life and her daily life walking around and discovering both the language and the food of course. How different is life here to America? How do French women see their bodies? And who will accept an american woman learning about French cuisine?
Recipes galore to explore when you’ve finished trying to lick the aromas and tastes from the pages.
Booktrailer Review
Susan:
I love Paris and French food so to discover a city via its food really is the best way to do it. What might seem like a love story is much more than that as it’s a real way to see the city through unique eyes – that of an american lady who moves there and makes real effort to integrate herself into the ways and daily life of her new country. Not at first, granted but then culture shock is also very well documented.
This culture shock, the differences between French and American women’s attitudes to food and love are very apt. Having lived in both countries myself I really related to a lot of what she said and felt. Going to a French market – the noise, the atmosphere, the food and the challenge of buying something for the first time…Yes Been there and really remembered that!
I really enjoyed this – rediscovering the city again in a new way. The recipes lovingly sprinkled throughout the book were lovely and I can’t wait to try them for myself. This is a real warm love story on so many levels and as tasty as that chocolate!
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