Loomis is an American food writer in love with France. Some years
ago she moved with her husband and toddler son into a beautiful but
near-derelict house on Rue Tatin in Louviers, a town in Normandy.
On Rue Tatin chronicles their life there, the family's gradual
integration into the town and French life, and the rebuilding of
their much-loved house. Between each chapter are four or five
recipes which capture the imagination and will surely have you
heading for the kitchen. Some are exotic: 'Roasted Leg of Wild
Boar', 'Nasturtium Oil' or 'Apples Stuffed with Goats Cheese and
Leeks'. Some are more mundane, for instance 'Everyday Pasta with
Tomato and Goat's Cheese'. The most intriguing are recipes which
arise from Loomis' personal experiences, such as 'Tiny Baked
Potatoes From a Cold Day at the Louviers Market' or 'Le Pain de
Rapprochement' ('The Rolls That Brought Us Together') which helped
to ease a sticky social situation. And of course, given her
address, the author includes her own version of the famous apple
tart, Tarte Tatin. This is a dangerous book. It will make anyone
with even a drop of Francophile blood want to pack up and move
instantly to rural France. Not that Loomis glamorizes or idealizes.
She tells it as it is, warts and all: the surly and difficult
neighbours as well as the welcoming ones; the unfathomable,
exasperating ways of French builders; the coils of French
bureaucracy. But she tells it with such irrepressible humour and
vivid affection that she brings the picture to life. Reading the
book, you can see and hear, taste and smell the everyday world of
the French country town. (Kirkus UK)
Beguiling, aromatic memoirs of a cookery writer, settling in a
small Normandy town, very similar in flavour to Under the Tuscan
Sun. The second house that Susan Hermann Loomis looked at in the
small town of Louviers was perfect. Dilapidated, rambling,
crumbling walls which were covered with faded paper, it had been a
convent. So Susan, her husband, luckily a sculptor and builder, and
small son, moved in - to spend a year and more, rebuilding, finding
new hidden treasures of their house, and discovering their
neighbours, and the life of a small French town. Some of the great
pleasures of the book come from sharing in Susan Loomis' daily
journeys: to the market, to the butcher and the baker, talking to
the shop keepers and the teachers at the school, and meeting the
clergy who tramp through their garden. As her son joins the local
school, as Susan's cookery work gets underway, so the reader is
part of all the human - and gastronomic - experiences that shape
this very French town.
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