In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France
8 best books like In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France (Susan Herrmann Loomis): Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers, Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas, French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters, My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now, Taste and See: Discovering God among Butchers, Bakers, and Fresh Food Makers
| Author | Ruth Reichl |
| ISBN | 1400069998 |
Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during which she...
French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
| Author | Mireille Guiliano |
| ISBN | 0375435484 |
So, two winters ago when I started to put on a little weight, I didn't sweat it at first. I figured "hey, it's normal to put on a few pounds when it's cold out." But when one morning I had difficulty zipping up my pants, I decided to get serious and apply the ideas from this book.
Confession: in the past,...
Life is a fugue. Our lives and memories overlap and run into one another. Perhaps, if I had not spent 20 days this summer at a hospice house this book would only have 4 stars but for me this is the summer of the great grandfather and not a word was wasted. Five whole stars worth of words.
And then there...
Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers
| Author | Charlie Louvin |
| ISBN | 0062069039 |
Get ready for one of America’s great untold stories: the true saga of the Louvin Brothers, a mid-century Southern gothic Cain and Abel and one of the greatest country duos of all time. The Los Angeles Times called them “the most influential harmony team in the history of country music,” but Emmylou...
| Author | John Baxter |
| ISBN | 0061562335 |
A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread—and didn't speak a word of French—unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family.
Ernest...
French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters
Moving her young family to her husband's hometown in northern France, Karen Le Billon expected some cultural adjustment. But she didn't expect to be lectured for slipping her fussing toddler a snack, or to be forbidden from packing her older daughter a school lunch. Karen is intrigued by the fact that...
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now
| Author | Peter Mayle |
| ISBN | 0451494520 |
The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new writing, offers vivid recollections from his twenty-five years in the South of France--lessons learned, culinary delights enjoyed, and changes observed.
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle...
Taste and See: Discovering God among Butchers, Bakers, and Fresh Food Makers
| Author | Margaret Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0310354862 |
God is a foodie who wants to transform your supper into sacrament.
One of America's most beloved teachers and writers, Margaret Feinberg, goes on a remarkable journey to unearth God's perspective on food.
She writes that since the opening of creation, God, the Master Chef, seeds...
