Lunch in Paris - A Love Story, with Recipes
Verlag | Back Bay Books |
Auflage | 2011 |
Seiten | 337 |
Format | 20 cm |
Gewicht | 310 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0316042781 |
EAN | 9780316042789 |
Bestell-Nr | 31604278EA |
2002 ging die junge Elizabeth Bard aus dem rasanten New York nach Paris. Dort aß sie mit einem schönen Franzosen und blieb. Die Geschichte einer interkulturellen Romanze und weinbeflecktes Familienkochbuch zugleich, erzählt dieses Buch, wie viel das Kochen lernen mit dem Leben gemeinsam hat: manchmal muss man einfach das Rezept zur Seite legen und improvisieren.
Klappentext:
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 pav? 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 souffl?), 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.
Rezension:
"As charming and coquettish as Paris itself, Lunch in Paris reawakens our tired hearts and palates with a deliciously passionate journey through the city of lights. Be prepared to be seduced by french kisses, the richest chocolate, and the sweet charm of Bard\'s prose."-Nani Power, author of Crawling at Night and Feed the Hungry