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My Place At The Table - A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris (Hardcover)
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My Place At The Table - A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
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In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose
childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he
became one of Paris's most influential food critics Until Alec
Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women's Wear
Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional
supermarket eclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned
cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because
he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and
couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually
learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail
party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani.
Over a superb lunch, it's his landlady who ultimately provides him
with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: "you must
understand the intentions of the cook." At the city's brasseries
and bistros, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of
vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia
Child to Ruth Reichl, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice.
Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the
Parisian dining revolution and the restaurant critic of one of the
largest newspapers in the France. A mouthwatering testament to the
healing power of food, My Place at the Table is a moving
coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding
childhood, discovers himself, and finds love. Published here for
the first time is Lobrano's "little black book," an insider's guide
to his thirty all-time-favorite Paris restaurants.
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