From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant
10 best books like From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant (Michael S. Sanders): The Olive Harvest: A Memory of Love, Old Trees and Olive Oil, C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French, Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light, French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, Return to Paris: A Memoir, French By Heart: An American Family's Adventures in La Belle France, The Hills of Tuscany, Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella, I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany
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...
C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French
| Author | Suzy Gershman |
| ISBN | 0143035509 |
Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed “Super Shopper Suzy” by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had always fantasized about moving to Paris with her husband, but when he dies unexpectedly, she decides to fulfill their...
Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
| Author | David Downie |
| ISBN | 0307886085 |
“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of...
French or Foe?: Getting the Most Out of Visiting, Living and Working in France
| Author | Polly Platt |
| ISBN | 0964668424 |
Polly Platt's title French or Foe? is more timely than ever, as the Franco. American alliance frays a little more with each day, the exchanges more vitriolic than ever before. Her book has long been the reference for what it is about the French that rubs Americans the wrong way, why the Franco-American...
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
New Yorker writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir.
No writer has written more enthusiastically about food than A. J. Liebling. Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, the great New Yorker writer's last book, is a wholly appealing...
Return to Paris: A Memoir
| Author | Colette Rossant |
| ISBN | 0743439686 |
Paris, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenage Colette, especially after her thrill-seeking mother leaves her in the care of her bitter, malaisé...
Can a family of five from deep in the heart of Dixie find happiness smack dab in the middle of France?
French By Heart is the story of an all-American family pulling up stakes and finding a new home in Clermont-Ferrand, a city four hours south of Paris known more for its smoke-spitting factories...
| Author | Ferenc Máté |
| ISBN | 0385334419 |
The true-life adventure of a couple who did what most of us only dream of doing, Ferenc Mate's enticing, beautifully written memoir of their first year in this enchanted place brings to life the real Tuscany: the neighbors, the spectacular hills where The English Patient was filmed, country life, the...
| Author | David Shalleck |
| ISBN | 0767920481 |
“Saturday was dawning warm, with only a gentle wind under a light blue sky as we got under way. . . . With the motor cut out, I could hear the whispered splash of the sea against the hull as we knifed through the Mediterranean. The calming noise, along with the gentle rocking, lulled me into a Zen calm as...
| Author | Mark Greenside |
| ISBN | 1416586873 |
Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside reluctantly travels, eats of the crêpes, and finds a second...
| Author | Annie Hawes |
| ISBN | 0140294236 |
A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer they can't refuse. The laugh is on the Foreign Females...
| Author | Kristin Espinasse |
| ISBN | 0743287282 |
Based on the popular blog (french-word-a-day.com) and newsletter with thousands of subscribers -- a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two very French children with her French husband in Provence, carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language. Imagine a former French...
| Author | Ruth Silvestre |
| ISBN | 0749015985 |
I really loved this book! I felt like I really got to know the author and her family and the friends they made when they spent summers at their sunny house in southwestern France next to fields and a pond. The book covers several years of summers, so there is a progression through various projects, times...
| Author | Susan Herrmann Loomis |
| ISBN | 0767904559 |
Susan Loomis arrived in Paris twenty years ago with little more than a student loan and the contents of a suitcase to sustain her. But what
began then as an apprenticeship at La Varenne École de Cuisine evolved into a lifelong immersion in French cuisine and culture, culminating in permanent residency...
| Author | Patricia Wells |
| ISBN | 0060898615 |
Patricia Wells, long recognized as the leading American authority on French food, and her husband, Walter, live the life in France that many of us have often fantasized about. After more than a quarter century, they are as close to being accepted as "French" as any non-natives can be. In this delightful...
| 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 | 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...
The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family
| Author | Laura Schenone |
| ISBN | 0393061469 |
James Beard Award-winning author Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother's ravioli recipe, reuniting with relatives as she goes. In lyrical prose and delicious recipes, Schenone takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from the grit of New Jersey's industrial wastelands...
A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new lifethis time in the South of France. Thirty years ago, James Beard Award-winning author Georgeanne Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence en Provence. She and her...
| Author | Vicki Archer |
| ISBN | 1920989455 |
A beautifully photographed romantic book about French style and culture?and making a new home in Provence
In 1999, Vicki Archer, with her husband and three children, made a lifelong dream a reality when she bought a seventeenth-century property in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. She spent three...
Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris
| Author | Clotilde Dusoulier |
| ISBN | 0767926137 |
Clotilde Dusoulier, a native Parisian and passionate explorer of the city’s food scene, has won a tremendous following online with her insider reports and wonderful recipes on her blog, www.chocolateandzucchini.com. Her book, Chocolate and Zucchini, introduced her to a wider, equally enthusiastic...
Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul
| Author | Charles Timoney |
| ISBN | 1592403735 |
The French you learned in school won’t get you far! Pardon My French is an entertaining and useful guide to the words and phrases every Francophile, traveler, student, and word maven should know, with fascinating lore and tidbits that make sense of the Gallic mind-set.
Englishman Charles...
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...
