About this title: Lebovitz, a pastry chef and cookbook author, always dreamed about living in Paris. This collection of recipes and observations is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN-13:9780767928885ISBN:0767928881
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780767928885ISBN:0767928881
Description: New. Lebovitz, a pastry chef and cookbook author, always dreamed about living in Paris. This collection of recipes and observations is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections. read more
"This book is a contemporary answer to Julia Child's "My Life in France." Instead of following a partner there on a job, David Lebovitz moves to Paris after loosing one (and looses his suitcases as well thanks to La Poste) and starts over. I love how he's frank, funny and sure he can charm the French into doing things for him like opening a bank account with brownies. I never read his blog, but this book is enough to get me to start. I also love that his life centers in the Bastille neighborhood, which is one of my favorite neighborhoods in Paris, but seems overlooked by most American tourists. I am surly going to photocopy the recipes and resources that pepper this book before I return it to the library. My only complaint is that sometimes I actually wanted less recipes and more narrative. While Lebovitz is mostly a cook book author, he's also a great storyteller and I wanted more stories!"
"Makes me want to hop a plane for a long weekend in Paris!! Despite the protrayal of Parisians to be the most selfish species on the planet, I enjoyed reading about the various shops and food and his experiences. He includes several recipes that sound fabulous. Not the best written food memoir book but still makes me want to go there!"
"The writing was okay, but the snarky tone (especially when talking about other Americans) started to annoy me by the end. The book did make me laugh out loud a few times, which is why I gave it three stars instead of two. All in all, it read like a loosely connected collection of blog posts and recipes, which I guess is what it was."
"While this isn't a perfect book - his insider secrets voice kinda got on my nerves a few times, but I'll chock that up to jealousy - it was perfectly enjoyable for a plane ride home. I plan on keeping this book a bit longer from the library to try out a couple of the recipes. While I have no plans on going to Paris in the next while, I certainly can try out a few of the recipes to tide me over."
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