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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious---And Perplexing---City
David Lebovitz
3.68 AVERAGE
268 reviews for:
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious---And Perplexing---City
David Lebovitz
3.68 AVERAGE
Short and sweet vignettes about his life in his adopted city of Paris.
A pastry chef's humorous views about Parisian culture. After 13 years at Chez Panisse, he moved to Paris and got adjusted to cold shopkeepers, people cutting in line, bureaucracy, amazing baguettes and chocolates, universal healthcare.
He has a sarcastic wit that is entertaining. I listened as an audiobook while exercising.
He has a sarcastic wit that is entertaining. I listened as an audiobook while exercising.
adventurous
funny
informative
medium-paced
This was great! It has everything I like: Paris, cooking, humor. I laughed out loud so many times. I can't believe it took me so long to pick this one up!
lighthearted
medium-paced
One of the funniest books I have ever read. If you are planning/have lived/have been to Paris, do yourself a favor and read this. Plus the recipes he includes at the end of each chapter are to die for.
He describes it as delicious adventures in the world’s most glorious – and perplexing – city. Though this is quite true, I would also add the word hilarious after delicious. Indeed. Mr. Lebovitz is a highly entertaining story teller.
Without spending any time with the delicious (and sometimes pretty, I’m sure) sounding recipes, the book is a quick and laughter-filled frolic through the charming, and sometimes infuriating, streets of Paris, especially when you step in dog poo, because you will, dear reader, I gua-ran-tee it. I zipped through it over the course of an afternoon, easily laughing and commiserating with David on his adventures from the quotidian to the unusual.
However, where I throw up my hands in frustration and declare a moratorium on visits to Paris as a result of being chastised for not having exact change, failing to understand the delicacies of French plumbing, or being jockeyed out of my position in line, David joins the party and fully engages, eventually becoming one of those line jockeys himself. C’est pas ma faute!
If you have any interest in learning about an honest Parisian life and some delicious sounding recipes, grab a copy. It doesn’t disappoint!
Without spending any time with the delicious (and sometimes pretty, I’m sure) sounding recipes, the book is a quick and laughter-filled frolic through the charming, and sometimes infuriating, streets of Paris, especially when you step in dog poo, because you will, dear reader, I gua-ran-tee it. I zipped through it over the course of an afternoon, easily laughing and commiserating with David on his adventures from the quotidian to the unusual.
However, where I throw up my hands in frustration and declare a moratorium on visits to Paris as a result of being chastised for not having exact change, failing to understand the delicacies of French plumbing, or being jockeyed out of my position in line, David joins the party and fully engages, eventually becoming one of those line jockeys himself. C’est pas ma faute!
If you have any interest in learning about an honest Parisian life and some delicious sounding recipes, grab a copy. It doesn’t disappoint!
Parisians come across as picky, unfriendly, aggressive, yet somehow charming all the same. Good recipes and tips on what to see in Paris, along with a chatty style, make this a good pre-Paris trip book.