Book description
In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman -- and never went home again.
Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery…
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Who could resist this first line? “I slept with my French husband halfway through our first date.” Not me! Elizabeth Bard, in Paris for the weekend, sits down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman and falls in love.
Bard reveals how, despite her dreams of success, she was able to reinvent herself after marrying a Frenchman and moving to France. The included recipes run the gamut from what he cooked for her after they first made love to French dinner party food and traditional favorites from her American-Jewish family.
This memoir of finding a new life in the City…
From K.'s list on travel memoirs with bonus recipes or illustrations.
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