Tag: book review
Interview with Imogen Robertson on her new book: The Paris Winter
It is said that everyone has a book in them.
Not literally, of course. For if that were the case there would be a lot...
The Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World’s Grandest Garden (A Book by...
On December 26, 1999, a storm tore violently across France. Fifteen years later, le Tempête is still spoken of in hushed tones and nearly...
Review of Big Macs in Paris: A Memoir by Anne McCarthy (with excerpt from...
Anne McCarthy’s Big Macs in Paris is about the experience of an outsider in Paris. It fits the classic coming of age memoir, but does...
A Cruel Calm: Paris Between The Wars (A Book by Patricia Daly-Lipe)
Who hasn’t wondered about the lives our parents lived before we came along? Often the details are elusive. Patricia Daly–Lipe spent 15 years researching...
A Book for All Seasons
We will never go hungry for opinions about food and cooking, especially related to Paris. Bookshelves, magazine racks, and the blogosphere are bloated with...
Intoxicating Paris: Uncorking the Parisian Within (A Book by P.J. Adams)
It began when I lived in Paris and continues to this day. I love meeting visitors to the city, especially those who are seeing...
Book Review: Mastering the Art of French Eating
Generally, I distrust most food memoirs. There seems to be a widespread acceptance of embellishing and toying with events in order to massage the...
Paris: The Novel, by Edward Rutherford
"The smell of gauloises and urine in the streets of Paris. The feel of cold wind in Pere Lachaise cemetery. The sight of the...
Lunch in Paris – Book Review
“Red meat and gin,” said Julia Child when asked the secret to her longevity.
The American culinary whiz, credited with mainstreaming French cuisine, died at...
Book Review: Paris to the Past
Almost twenty years ago, American writer, Ina Caro, accompanied frequently by her husband, biographer Robert Caro, combined her love of France, travel and history...
Coquilles, Calva and Crème by G. Y. Dryansky, with Joanne Dryansky
Coquilles, Calva and Crème: Exploring France’s Culinary Heritage, A Love Affair with Real French Food is a nutritious, delicious stew of a book. A...
