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The sweet life in Paris :

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The sweet life in Paris :

[Book]

delicious adventures in the world's most glorious-- and perplexing-- city

David Lebovitz.

1st pbk. ed

New York

Broadway Books

[2011]

xvi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Publication date on Random House Web site: March 1, 2011.; "Originally published in hardcover ... in 2009"--Title page verso.; Includes index.

Introduction --; Je suis parisien --; Ma patite cuisine --; The most important words to know in Paris --; Dining like a Parisian --; Dressing like a Parisian --; Water, water everywhere-but you can't have any --; My Clé to success --; What they say versus what they mean --; Lines are for other people --; Hot chocolate to die for --; A fish out of water --; The French security blanket --; Having the bourses th give myself a shot --; My French paradox --; Les bousculeurs --; Ne tochez pas! --; Jeanne --; Too many ways to say the same thing --; Ask him for a café au lait only if you woke up with him --; Welcome to franprix! --; Fancying le fromage --; Gréve grief --; The visitors --; Having it all --; Le bronzage --; Of course! --; Finding my balance in a chocolate shop --; I see breasts --; Enfin.

"Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discovered it's a different world en France. From learning the ironclad rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men's footwear, from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the etiquette of working the right way around the cheese plate, here is David's story of how he came to fall in love with and even understand this glorious, yet sometimes maddening, city. When did he realize he had morphed into un vrai parisien? It might have been when he found himself considering a purchase of men's dress socks with cartoon characters on them. Or perhaps the time he went to a bank with 135 euros in hand to make a 134-euro payment, was told the bank had no change that day, and thought it was completely normal. Or when he found himself dressing up to take out the garbage because he had come to accept that in Paris appearances and image mean everything. The more than fifty original recipes, for dishes both savory and sweet, such as Pork Loin with Brown Sugar Bourbon Glaze, Braised Turkey in Beaujolais Nouveau with Prunes, Bacon and Bleu Cheese Cake, Chocolate-Coconut Marshmallows, Chocolate Spice Bread, Lemon-Glazed Madeleines, and Mocha "CrÃme FraÃche Cake, will have readers running to the kitchen once they stop laughing."--Goodreads.com.

Cooking, French.

Gastronomy.

Lebovitz, David.

David Lebovitz.

David Lebovitz

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