Name: Lunch in Paris
ISBN: 9780316042796

Elizabeth Bard

"Documents how the author fell in love and discovered the excellence of French cuisine during a life-changing lunch, recounting her decision to leave her fast-paced New York life to build a life abroad marked by bustling marketplaces, bad-tempered butchers and decadent chocolate shops."

A Love Story, with Recipes

Lunch in Paris

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.

taryn

After binge watching Emily in Paris, my manager lent me this book. It's light, romantic, and but with some more emotional depth that Emily lacks. 

Do not read this on an empty stomach, you'll be craving delicious dishes the entire time.

After binge watching Emily in Paris, my manager lent me this book. It's light, romantic, and but with some more emotional depth that Emily lacks. 

Do not read this on an empty stomach, you'll be craving delicious dishes the entire time.

Jeannette Ordas

Maybe 3 stars is stretching it, but I did swoon over a few of the recipes and would love to give them a try. I didn't relate with the author and her relationships to the people around her. Maybe it was her can-do-it-all American attitude that struck me as odd. But it did make me want to head to Paris straight away and dig in.

Erin 

I've recently gotten into the concept of cooking (if you know me, you know that even thinking about it is a huge step), so I would like to think that I would have picked this up on my own because of this new interest. I didn't, but I like to think it. I read this for the WOW Book Club, and I did enjoy it, despite not really connecting with anything that was going on, even with this newfound interest in food. The recipes were neat, and I did take down a few, but felt a little too above my calibre as a beginner. I haven't read a whole lot of Paris memoirs, but it feels like this would be very similar to all the rest out there. Does anyone have a unique journey in Paris?

Lunch in Paris A Love Story, with Recipes

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