Tag: Paris book reviews
Book Review: An Unexpected Guest, by Anne Korkeakivi
This is a story that will stay with you. Clare, the American wife of a British diplomat, has created a life that is on...
Hungry for France: Adventures for the Cook & Food Lover (A Book by Alexander...
“Paris is sexy because it’s subtle.” Six words, written by Alexander Lobrano in Hungry for Paris, lead me to break a hard and fast...
Light French Recipes: The French Diet Cookbook
Snowdrifts give way to crocuses, and songbirds perched in budding cherry trees announce that spring is here, with swimsuit season hot on its heels....
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...
The Paris Gourmet (A Book by Trish Deseine)
When you consider the highlights of time spent in Paris, I imagine food and wine rank high. Chances are you have more than a...
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...
Interview with Bringing Home the Birkin author Michael Tonello
Michael Tonello knows Paris.
He is the Indiana Jones of the handbag world (minus the fedora and bullwhip). Tonello traveled the globe, hunting for 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...
