We've Always Had Paris...and Provence: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France
10 best books like We've Always Had Paris...and Provence: A Scrapbook of Our Life in France (Patricia Wells): Chez Moi, Quiet Corners of Paris, Walks through Lost Paris: A Journey into the Heart of Historic Paris, Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza, Calzone, From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant, Spain...A Culinary Road Trip, French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France, Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas, Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It, A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
| Author | Agnès Desarthe |
| ISBN | 0143113232 |
At forty-three, Myriam has been a wife, mother, and lover—but never a restauranteur. When she opens Chez Moi in a quiet neighborhood in Paris, she has no idea how to run a business, but armed only with her love of cooking, she is determined to try. Barely able to pay the rent, Myriam secretly sleeps in...
| Author | Jean-Christophe Napias |
| ISBN | 1892145502 |
More than eighty of the loveliest, most tranquil, and sometimes hidden places in Paris are celebrated in this charming guidebook
Quiet Corners of Paris is a beautifully illustrated peek into eighty-one often overlooked, always beautiful, locales: hidden villas, winding lanes, little-known...
Walks through Lost Paris: A Journey into the Heart of Historic Paris
| Author | Leonard Pitt |
| ISBN | 1593761031 |
When he discovered that the city he lived in for many years was actually entirely rebuilt during the mid-1800s, Leonard Pitt plunged into Paris's history and began photographing what he learned had changed. Eventually, he led tours and gave lectures on the demolition and reconstruction that changed...
Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza, Calzone
| Author | Alice Waters |
| ISBN | 0679755365 |
The basic pizza dough I make is a modification of Alice’s recipe on page 151. What I do is ::
1/4 cup warm water
2 teaspoon dry yeast, stir to dissolve
1/4 cup rye or wheat or white (whatever’s in the house)
Give that a quick stir to combine and wet’n, cover with a wet cloth and let...
| 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...
| Author | Mario Batali |
| ISBN | 0061560936 |
From Mario Batali, superstar chef and author of Molto Italiano and Italian Grill, comes an eating tour throughout Spain with his friend Gwyneth Paltrow.
Spain...A Culinary Road Trip is the companion book to the prime-time public television series Spain...On The Road Again. The premise...
| Author | Richard Goodman |
| ISBN | 1565123522 |
A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure of having a little piece of French land all to oneself to till.
Richard Goodman saw the ad in the paper: "SOUTHERN FRANCE: Stone house in Village near Nimes/Avignon/Uzes. 4 BR, 2 baths, fireplace,...
| 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...
Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It
| Author | Jill Richardson |
| ISBN | 0981504035 |
“Jill Richardson is a fresh voice in the movement to create a healthier and sustainable food system. This book will be part of the burgeoning food social movement, as it provides a guide to the most important issues and how to work on them.”—Marion Nestle
“Jill’s work at Daily Kos...
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...
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...
A Town Like Paris: Falling in Love in the City of Light
| Author | Bryce Corbett |
| ISBN | 0767928172 |
At the age of twenty-eight, stuck in a dead-end job in London, and on the run from a broken heart, Bryce Corbett takes a job in Paris, home of l’amour and la vie boheme; he is determined to make the city his own—no matter how many bottles of Bordeaux it takes. He rents an apartment in Le Marais, the heart...
Everything but the Squeal: Eating the Whole Hog in Northern Spain
| Author | John Barlow |
| ISBN | 0374150109 |
John Barlow, self-confessed glutton, found himself in a tricky situation: living in one of the most meat-loving places on earth, married to a vegetarian.
The Barlows live in Galicia, the misty-green northwest corner of Spain, and home to a population that reveres and consumes every part of the...
Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City's Best Pastry Shops
| Author | Dorie Greenspan |
| ISBN | 0767906810 |
The prize-winning author of Baking with Julia (more than 350,000 copies sold), among other cookbook classics, celebrates the sweet life with recipes and lore from Paris's finest patisseries.
Like most lovers of pastry and Paris, Dorie Greenspan has always marveled at the jewel-like...
Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food)
| Author | Ruth Reichl |
| ISBN | 0679643095 |
A glorious, edible tour of Paris through six decades of writing from Gourmet magazine, edited and introduced by Ruth Reichl
For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless...
Markets of Paris: Food, Antiques, Crafts, Books, and More
| Author | Dixon Long |
| ISBN | 1936941007 |
The food scene in Paris has changed dramatically since 2006, when Markets of Paris was first published. Yes, the same markets are held in the same locales as always—literally, for centuries—but many have undergone a remarkable transformation led by a young generation of purveyors focused, even...
To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion
| Author | Philip Greene |
| ISBN | 0399537643 |
In To Have and Have Another, Ernest Hemingway enthusiast and cocktail connoisseur Philip Greene delves deeper into the author’s drinking habits than ever before, offering dozens of authentic recipes for drinks directly connected with the novels, history and folklore, and colorful anecdotes...
A Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood
| Author | Alex Karmel |
| ISBN | 1567921981 |
or anyone who loves Paris and the mysterious allure of old houses, this charming, personal and informed memoir makes for perfect reading. In a knowledgeable, literate style that conveys (and makes contagious) Karmel's love of his subject, A Corner in the Marais traces the architectural and social...
| Author | Richard Olney |
| ISBN | 0020100604 |
Simple French Food
"For twenty years Richard Olney's Simple French Food has been one of my greatest sources of inspiration for cooking at Chez Panisse." --Alice Waters
"I know this book almost by heart. It is a classic of honest French cooking and good writing. Buy it, read it, eat it." --Lydie...
Confessions of a French Baker: Breadmaking Secrets, Tips, and Recipes
Attention bread lovers!In the first of his famous books about Provence, Peter Mayle shared with us news of a bakery in the town of Cavaillon where the baking and appreciation of breads "had been elevated to the status of a minor religion." Its name: Chez Auzet.Now, several hundred visits later, Mayle...
True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris
| Author | Lucinda Holdforth |
| ISBN | 1553651294 |
Meet the dazzling women of Paris: from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Madame de Stael to Pamela Harriman; Napoleon’s Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, demimondes and diplomats, these women were utterly diverse, yet all shared one common...
I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti
| Author | Giulia Melucci |
| ISBN | 0446534420 |
From failure to fusilli, this deliciously hilarious read tells the story of Giulia Melucci's fizzled romances and the mouth-watering recipes she used to seduce her men, smooth over the lumps, and console herself when the relationships flamed out.
From an affectionate alcoholic, to the...
