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Lunch in Paris
A Love Story, With Recipes
Book Summary
Documents how the author fell in love and discovered the excellence of French cuisine during a life-changing lunch in Paris, recounting her decision to leave her fast-paced New York life to build a life abroad.
This book is about:
- Intercountry marriage,
- Bard, Elizabeth,
- Cooking, French,
- Food habits,
- Homes and haunts,
- Marriage,
- Paris (France),
- Paris,
- France,
- Americans,
- Description and travel,
- Biography
NPR stories about Lunch in Paris
Critics' Lists: Summer 2011
They Came, They Saw, They Cooked: 5 Food Memoirs
Spending your honeymoon in Baghdad is unusual. But falling in love with a Frenchman in Paris? Not so much. By all standards, Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes should be an enormous cliche. As an American visiting Paris, writer Elizabeth Bard was swept off her feet by a Frenchman during — guess what — lunch at a French restaurant. Sacre bleu! She married the man, moved to Paris and raided the markets.
Yet Bard's narrative is breezy and likable. Her... more
—Susan Jane Gilman
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