The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious--And Perplexing--City (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Sweet Life in Paris Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Nearly two decades later, he finally moved to the city of light--only to find that it can be a glorious, maddening place for a foreigner to live.
Full description- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Published: 01 March 2011
- Format: Paperback 282 pages
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- Categories: General Cookery | Guidebooks | Restaurant, Cafe & Pub Guides | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9780767928892 ISBN 10: 076792889X
- Sales rank: 3,002
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Full description for The Sweet Life in Paris
Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discovered it's a different world "en France." From learning the ironclad rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men's footwear, from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the etiquette of working the right way around the cheese plate, here is David's story of how he came to fall in love with--and even understand--this glorious, yet sometimes maddening, city. When did he realize he had morphed into "un vrai parisien"? It might have been when he found himself considering a purchase of men's dress socks with cartoon characters on them. Or perhaps the time he went to a bank with 135 euros in hand to make a 134-euro payment, was told the bank had no change that day, and thought it was completely normal. Or when he found himself dressing up to take out the garbage because he had come to accept that in Paris appearances and image mean everything. The more than fifty original recipes, for dishes both savory and sweet, such as Pork Loin with Brown Sugar-Bourbon Glaze, Braised Turkey in Beaujolais Nouveau with Prunes, Bacon and Bleu Cheese Cake, Chocolate-Coconut Marshmallows, Chocolate Spice Bread, Lemon-Glazed Madeleines, and Mocha-Creme Fraiche Cake, will have readers running to the kitchen once they stop laughing. "The Sweet Life in Paris" is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.
