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A Love Story, with Recipes
Little, Brown and Company
February 2011
On Sale: February 7, 2011
Featuring: Elizabeth Bard; Gwendal
352 pages
ISBN: 0316042781
EAN: 9780316042789
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction Cooking / Food
In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to
lunch with a handsome Frenchman--and never went home again.
Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife
slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the
steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper
sauce? LUNCH IN PARIS is a memoir about a young American
woman caught up in two passionate love affairs--one with her
new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Packing
her bags for a new life in the world's most romantic city,
Elizabeth is plunged into a world of bustling open-air
markets, hipster bistros, and size 2 femmes fatales.
She learns to gut her first fish (with a little help from
Jane Austen), soothe pangs of homesickness (with the rise of
a chocolate soufflé) and develops a crush on her local
butcher (who bears a striking resemblance to Matt Dillon).
Elizabeth finds that the deeper she immerses herself in the
world of French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to
translate. French culture, she discovers, is not unlike a
well-ripened cheese-there may be a crusty exterior, until
you cut through to the melting, piquant
heart. Peppered with mouth-watering recipes for summer
ratatouille, swordfish tartare and molten chocolate
cakes, Lunch in Paris is a story of falling in love,
redefining success and discovering what it truly means to be
at home. In the delicious tradition of memoirs like A
Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, this
book is the perfect treat for anyone who has dreamed that
lunch in Paris could change their life.
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