Bard - Lunch in Paris: a love story, with recipes

A delicious story about falling in loveover foodin France.

Harpers Bazaar

Sweet and heartfelt with delicious recipes.

People

Gotta love a memoir that begins with: I slept with my husband halfway through our first date. Youll stay hooked as Bard transforms from an American to a Parisian navigating markets and dealing with a mother-in-law who wears tiny bikinis.

Glamour

Lunch in Paris has got it all: romance in full on the front burner with delicious French recipes for sustenance. Elizabeth Bards voice is filled with lust and longingits Eat, Stay, Love with a side of spiced apricots.

Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Very Valentine

In this charming memoir, Bard searches for her new identity by balancing her love for two countries. She discovers the common denominator that will give her life meaning: food. She trawls open-air markets and cooks up delicious, decadent meals. If you enjoyed the Julia Child romance that made the Julie and Julia film so entrancing, youll love this voyage into the gastronomic soul of the Frenchcomplete with luscious recipes.

Carol Memmott, USA Today

A love story is always delightful, and one with recipes is also useful in the long run, part and parcel of a real French relationship.

Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce and LAffaire

The perfect get-away-from-it-all escape for a dreary February day.

Redbook

The book does an excellent job of placing food with culture, both French and American. Lunch in Paris winds its way through eight years of eating and Bards progression from a kitchen novice intimidated by the French language and Pariss hectic markets to an adventurous shopper and experimental cook comfortable mixing French, American, and other techniques. Its nearly impossible not to fall in love with her along the way. Shes halfway home with her luscious description of that first steak.

M. L. Johnson, Associated Press

As charming and coquettish as Paris itself, Lunch in Paris reawakens our tired hearts and palates with a deliciously passionate journey through the City of Lights. Be prepared to be seduced by French kisses, the richest chocolate, and the sweet charm of Bards prose.

Nani Power, author of Crawling at Night and Feed the Hungry

In one of the loveliest memoirs to come along in a long time, Elizabeth Bard draws the reader in from the first sentence and holds the interest throughout, sharing her fears, disappointments, experiences, joy, and delicious recipes. Theres an intelligence, wit, and eloquence about this masterful social and cultural expos about living abroad and intercultural marriages. Most of all, Lunch in Paris is a romance that effortlessly leaves the reader with a mild sense of intoxication.

Stephen Davenport, Independent Weekly (Australia)

A frothy confection of a memoir.

Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

Bards Parisian insights and savory recipes make a delightful union.

Don George, National Geographic Traveler

Yes, another food memoir, but a smart, coquettish one. In Lunch in Paris, falling in love with a Frenchman was not in Elizabeth Bards master plan, but then he took her to a local canteen: Not to minimize Gwendals many charms, but he was halfway to home base as soon as I cut into that marvelous steak, she writes. Culture shock set in as Bard learned to shop and cook in Paris, standing in line here for the best green beans, going there for the best walnuts. I thought the recipes were a cutesy touch until I made a few of them: chicken tagine with two kinds of lemon, spiced apricots, chouquettes. Forget the narrativeyou could just buy this as a cookbook.

Tina Jordan, Entertainment Weekly

Lunch in Paris is delicious, romantic, and sexy, just as the title indicates. What captivates you is the story of a woman finding herself after she finds love, and the challenge that entails. I devoured this book with all the gusto I would bring to a plate of steak tartare with pommes frites.

Giulia Melucci, author of I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti

Paris, food, falling in lovewhats not to love about this witty memoir thats interwoven with delicious French recipes? Elizabeth Bard combines a Nigella Lawsonstyle lust for food with a sharply observed eye on Paris and its people. This isnt just the book you want to read and own, its the life you want to lead.

New Idea (Australia)

Lunch in Paris is a book about an American woman who falls in love with her Breton husband over foodat the nineteenth-century restaurant Chartrier, in Parisbut with a twist: she includes recipes for classic French dishes, including baby cream puff shells, known as chouquettes. Perfect stuff for the long plane trip.

Gail Vida Hamburg, Huffington Post

The charmingly enviable tale of a woman who visits the City of Light and falls in love with it, a handsome stranger, and the fabulous food.

Colette Bancroft, St. Petersburg Times

This true tale of a New Yorker who meets and falls in love with a tall, dark, and handsome Parisian while living in London is a winner. Smattered with Bards recipes, this is an honest, funny, and deliciously romantic travel memoir.

Marie Claire

There is certainly a lot of lamour and manger (eating), filled as this little memoir is with recipes for delights such as oven-roasted pork ribs with honey; goat cheese, tomato, and anchovy tarts; and mussels with white wine and fennelthe latter touted as a Slimming Summer Recipe.