A House in the Sunflowers
10 best books like A House in the Sunflowers (Ruth Silvestre): The Olive Harvest: A Memory of Love, Old Trees and Olive Oil, From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant, Diary of a Midwife: The Power of Positive Childbearing, Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife, Old Friends, Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctor’s Practice in the Smoky Mountains, Under the Table: Saucy Tales from Culinary School, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: My Adventures in Life and Food, Pieces of White Shell, The Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire, and Ambition
The Olive Harvest: A Memory of Love, Old Trees and Olive Oil
| Author | Carol Drinkwater |
| ISBN | 0752865447 |
'The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras of light, appear and disappear and I cannot tell if it is caused by my lightheadedness or is a freak of nature. The silence is truly awesome. Not a bird, not a whisper...
| Author | Michael S. Sanders |
| ISBN | 0060959207 |
From Here,You Can't See Paris is a sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of chef Jacques...
Diary of a Midwife: The Power of Positive Childbearing
| Author | Juliana van Olphen-Fehr |
| ISBN | 0897895886 |
Despite our country's affluence and high-tech advances in neonatal intensive care, in 1994 the U.S. ranked twenty-first in infant mortality rates among developed countries with populations over 2.5 million. Women with low-risk pregnancies are frequently failed by the traditional obstetrical...
Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife
| Author | Karen Cecil Smith |
| ISBN | 1887905723 |
The Life of a Mountain Midwife is an interesting, but sometimes meandering, biography about a midwife named Orlean Puckett who lived and worked in rural Appalachia.
This reminded me of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books in that Karen Cecil Smith takes great care to detail...
Two old men in a little room. Together they represent some one hundred and sixty years of memory, of hope and achievement and sorrow - of life. They are residents of Linda Manor, a nursing home. What will become of them now? Once again, in the humble materials of daily life, Tracy Kidder - the author of House...
Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctor’s Practice in the Smoky Mountains
| Author | Walt Larimore |
| ISBN | 0310256720 |
Welcome to Bryson City, a small town tucked away in a fold of North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking, the home cooking can’t be beat, the Maroon Devils football team is the pride of the town, and you won’t find better steelhead fishing anywhere. But the best part is the people...
| Author | Katherine Darling |
| ISBN | 1416565272 |
A deliciously entertaining memoir about one woman's adventures in the student kitchens of the legendary French Culinary Institute -- flavored with celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering recipes
To anyone who has ever dreamed of life in a French kitchen, imagining...
| Author | Moira Hodgson |
| ISBN | 0767912705 |
The daughter of a British Foreign Service officer, Moira Hodgson spent her childhood in many a strange and exotic land. She discovered American food in Saigon, ate wild boar in Berlin, and learned how to prepare potatoes from her eccentric Irish grandmother. Today, Hodgson has a well-deserved reputation...
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0826309690 |
This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate...
The Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire, and Ambition
| Author | John Delucie |
| ISBN | 0061579246 |
“Hot grease, sharp knives, infidelity, and white truffles….The Hunger has all the right ingredients….The best memoir by a chef since Kitchen Confidential.”
—Jay McInerney
The Hunger is the page-turning memoir from John DeLucie, chef of THE celebrity hot spot...
| Author | Emily Franklin |
| ISBN | 1401340830 |
"I love my mom and I'm a good cook, and still I can't help wishing that Emily Franklin would adopt me--or maybe send me a care package. But at least I've got her recipes now. And this book, which is the perfect mix of heartwarming and mouthwatering. Yum." --Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy"Emily...
| Author | Susie Kelly |
| ISBN | 0553814907 |
Why would an unfit, 50-something Englishwoman embark on a solo walk across France from La Rochelle on the west coast to Lake Geneva over the Swiss border? And why would a total stranger from San Antonio, Texas come to live in her crumbling French farmhouse to house-sit for a multitude of boisterous and...
It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
| Author | John Mole |
| ISBN | 1857883438 |
After falling in love with an incredible view John Mole found himself owning a pile of stones and 20 years of goat dung. With no water, electricity or even a road his family were unamused. This is the warm and funny story of the Mole family's dream of making a home in a whitewashed island house with a blue door...
| Author | Patricia Atkinson |
| ISBN | 0099443163 |
For most people giving up the day job and moving to a beautiful area of France and living off the vines is an impossible but delicious dream. In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband decided to sell up in Britain and emigrate to the Dordogne. Their idea was to buy a house with a few vines attached and employ...
Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen
| Author | Jason Sheehan |
| ISBN | 0374289212 |
THE GRIT AND GLORY OF RESTAURANT LIFE, AS TOLD BY A SURVIVOR OF KITCHENS ACROSS AMERICA
Cooking Dirty is a rollicking account of life “on the line†in the restaurants, far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide—where most of us eat out most of the time. It takes...
A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover's Dream
| Author | Ferenc Máté |
| ISBN | 0920256562 |
Finding your dream house with a vineyard in Tuscany is like searching the woods for porcini mushrooms: a labor of love. Such feats require patience, discernment, resolve, and an indestructible sense of humor.
The Mátés’ future home and wine estate lies amid breathtaking scenery in a...
In the vein of Bill Bryson's and Eric Newby's travel memoirs, The Way, My Way takes you on a unique journey along the Camino de Santiago - a book that's both deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny.
“I’d never done anything crazy like this before – a pilgrimage walk. I was not a hiker and I...
Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
| Author | David Downie |
| ISBN | 1605984329 |
Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques then trekking 750 miles south to Roncesvalles, Spain, their eccentric route takes 72 days on Roman roads and pilgrimage paths—a...
| Author | Per Olov Enquist |
| ISBN | 9113018930 |
Liksom Strindberg skrev om sitt liv i tredje person, i Tjänstekvinnans son, skriver PO Enquist om sig själv som "honom", den faderlöse lärarinnepojken från Hjoggböle, tidig medlem i nykterhetsorganisationen Hoppets här och lovande höjdhoppare. Han, som mest satt ensam och ritade kartor,...
My Estonia. Passport Forgery, Meat Jelly Eaters, And Other Stories
| Author | Justin Petrone |
| ISBN | 9949901545 |
Some people have said this book is romantic and maybe it is: a young lost American college grad falls in love with an intriguing European journalist and embarks on a journey that restores his faith in himself and the world. Sure, it is romantic. But it was never easy. A foreigner arrives in the middle of...
„Pieci pirksti” ir autobiogrāfiska bērnības atmiņu grāmata, kurā autore tēlo atgriešanos kopā ar ģimeni mājās no Sibīrijas 20. gadsimta 50. gadu otrajā pusē un dzīvi Latvijā 50.–60. gadu mijā. Grāmata pārliecinoši nostājas līdzās latviešu autobiogrāfiskās...
| Author | Julia Stagg |
| ISBN | 1444721453 |
This book continues on immediately where L'Auberge finishes. I liked that it did this; firstly as all my favourite characters are still there and secondly because there was so much more I wanted to know about life in the village. It is all change in Fogas as the focus shifts off Paul and Lorna (the owners...
| Author | Mary Morris |
| ISBN | 0805078274 |
This story of a middle-aged woman's odyssey down the Mississippi River is a funny, beautifully written, and poignant tale of a journey that transforms a life
In fall 2005 acclaimed travel writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi in a battered old houseboat called the River Queen, with two...
Μια γειτονιά του Παρισιού. Ένα μεγάλο χωνευτήρι πολιτισμών. Εδώ θα βρεις σούσι κοσέρ, τούρκικες ταβέρνες, Εβραίους κουρείς, Αρμένηδες βιβλιοπώλες...
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