"Forever a girl obsessed with all things French, sweet freak Amy Thomas landed a gig as rich as the purest dark chocolate: leave Manhattan for Paris to write ad copy for Louis Vuitton. Working on the Champs-Élysées, strolling the charming streets, and exploring the best patisseries and boulangeries, Amy marveled at the magnificence of the City of Light. But does falling in love with one city mean turning your back on another? ... Paris, My Sweet explores how the search for happiness can be as fleeting as a salted caramel soufflé's rise, as intensely satisfying as molten chocolate cake, and about how the life you're meant to live doesn't always taste like the one you envisioned."--Page 4 of cover. Read more...
Abstract:
A memoir in macaroons, from an ad exec whose love affair with all things sweet drove her to the most delicious spots in Paris and New York. Read more...
Author(s): Thomas, Amy
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 280
City: France--Paris., Naperville, Ill., Paris (France)
Tags: Библиотека;Досуг;Путешествия и туризм;Путешествия и туризм во Франции;Путешествия и туризм в Париже;
Content: Le tour du chocolat --
A whole new batch of bonbons --
Cupcakes : the comfort of home --
Stick-to-your-teeth hot cocoa --
Bonding over French viennoiseries --
The big apple does macarons --
Crumbling over perfection --
Cakes to be loved and cherished --
A good chocolate chip cookie is hard to find --
The ecstasy of madeleines and muffins --
Carrot cake is the new banana cake --
Resurrection comes from baba au rhum --
French toast or pain perdu, that is the question --
One of life's best surprises : the baker's dozen.