On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town

10 best books like On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town (Susan Herrmann Loomis): 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, A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, Return to Paris: A Memoir, Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy, French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew, From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant, Italian Neighbors, Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella

C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French
AuthorSuzy Gershman
ISBN0143035509
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
AuthorDavid Downie
ISBN0307886085
 “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...
A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
AuthorMarlena de Blasi
ISBN0345481097
They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in Tuscany.

Once again, it was love at first...
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
AuthorA.J. Liebling
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
AuthorColette Rossant
ISBN0743439686
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...
AuthorMichael Tucker
ISBN0871139626
The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-fifty-year-old rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto...
French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
AuthorPeter Mayle
ISBN0375705619
A delightful, delicious, and best-selling account of the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France, from the beloved author of A Year in Provence.

The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be....
AuthorMichael S. Sanders
ISBN0060959207
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...
AuthorTim Parks
ISBN0802140343
In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife, Rita, in Verona, Italy....
AuthorDavid Shalleck
ISBN0767920481
“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...
AuthorCarol Drinkwater
ISBN0142001309
When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancé, cute Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the couple embark on an adventure that brings them...
AuthorLaura Fraser
ISBN0375724850
When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual...
AuthorMark Greenside
ISBN1416586873
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...
AuthorFrances Mayes
ISBN0767905350
From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at home,...
AuthorAnnie Hawes
ISBN0140294236
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...
AuthorKristin Espinasse
ISBN0743287282
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...
AuthorPhil Doran
ISBN1592401899
After years of working on a string of sitcoms, Phil Doran found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older guys when he was coming up the ranks, it was now happening to him. And it was freaking him out. He came home every night angry, burned- out, and exhausted. After...
The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family
AuthorLaura Schenone
ISBN0393061469
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
AuthorGeorgeanne Brennan
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...
My French Life
AuthorVicki Archer
ISBN1920989455
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
AuthorClotilde Dusoulier
ISBN0767926137
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...
Tout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels For A New Life In Rural France
AuthorKaren Wheeler
ISBN1840247614
Ugh what a dud to start the new year off with. I thought I'd settle in with a charming little book about moving to France & all that jazz, a bit like Under the Tuscan Sun, a book that I absolutely love, but this was just missing something for me. I couldn't really invest in the author's life choices, the...
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
AuthorJudith Jones
ISBN0307264955
From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing--one of the food world's most admired figures--an evocative and inspiring memoir.
Living in Paris after World War II, Judith Jones broke free of the bland American food she had been raised on and reveled in everyday French...
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