Paris Books
If there is any city in the world that loves books and their authors, it has to be Paris. So is it any surprise that writers respond in turn by lavishing their attentions on this city? The mountain of words is overwhelming. Where does one begin?
Celebrating Paris’s Ethnic Flavor
Just because you aren’t in Paris doesn’t mean you can’t recreate Paris at home, especially if home happens to be San Francisco.
Date: July 19th, 2007 |
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Weird Restaurants in Paris
A restaurant where you can drink your cocktail on the top of a Formula 1 motor? A restaurant that has goldfish in its toilets? Dining in the dark - complete darkness, or dining in a garage, or in someone’s private apartment? It seems like anything and everything is possible when it comes to retaurants in Paris. I’m not going to give any of Jacques Garrance and Stephanie Rivoal’s secrets away from their book
Paris Bars & Restos Insolites, Editions Jonglez.
I found their book at the FNAC bookstore (136, Rue de …
Date: June 24th, 2007 |
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Quote for the Day
“God put good wine on the earth for us to drink . . . and pretty women for us to look at.” Who said this? You will never guess this one in a zillion years unless you’ve read Of Men and Plants by Maurice Messegue.
Maurice was a natural healer who practiced in France during the 1950s. He had many famous patients including the singer Mistinguett, politicians, philosophers, and anyone who came to his door in need. He learned about plants from his father and often his method of prescribing treatments would be foot and hand baths.
His …
Date: April 13th, 2007 |
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Naughty Girls’ Paris: Mark this on your calendar!
“The exotic Joyzelle!” - said to be “the most sensational bacchanalian revel scene ever filmed” Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Sign of the Cross” (1932).
April 4th you can meet with journalist and fellow blogger Heather Stimmler Hall to learn about what Paris has to offer for naughty girls - (it’s sure to be more than just sticks and stones - although when it comes to old stones and bones - Paris has plenty of them).
This event is sponsored by Context Paris’s ‘Out of Context’ series of lectures and events that have been designed for …
Date: March 30th, 2007 |
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Paris Reading - Books to Put on Your List
There can never be too many books about Paris. I have just acquired a huge stack of books - and have only begun to delve into this treasure trove. Here is a sampling of the titles I’ve uncovered. The beauty of books about Paris - is that a good story about Paris never grows old - so, unless you’re looking at a guide book that bases its authority on telling you what is the latest restaurant where you can see and be seen, you’ll have much better luck browsing the second hand bookstores to find dusty treasures …
Date: March 22nd, 2007 |
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Paris Restaurant Guides: Pudlo in English
2007-2008 Pudlo Paris by Gilles Pudlowski, English translation: Simon Beaver, The Little Bookroom publisher, New York, Restaurant Guide in English 417 pages, $19.95
12.99 UK.
I’ve just had a chance to peruse the new Pudlo Paris restaurant guide in English. Gilles Pudlowski’s guide to Paris restaurants has been an essential for Paris-based foodies for many years. Mark, a Paris-based American expat, turned me onto the French-version of Pudlo’s way back when. It’s nice to see that finally an English version is available.
Date: July 11th, 2007 |
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Seeing Paris in the Blink of an Eye
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
“That city with a hundred mouths and a thousand cars, which knows nothing, but says everything,” is how Jean-Dominique Bauby describes Paris, the city where he lived and worked as editor-in-chief of French Elle before his stroke.
Date: May 24th, 2007 |
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Chinese Astrology - with a French Twist
Hate to be a harpie, but it’s entirely possible that you missed my May1st, 2005 post about Chinese Astrology, Plain and Simple by Suzanne White.
Chinese Astrology is much more than whimsical exploration of the various persona that make up the world of tigers, goats, cats, dogs, pigs, horses, snakes, dragons etc. but it’s also a hysterically funny look at raising kids in France in an extraordinary milieu - here’s just one example which White chooses to describe the dragon personality:
In this instance White is taking her 6-month old daughter to visit Salvador …
Date: April 2nd, 2007 |
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Policing the Seine
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©2007
According to Blake Ehrlich’s chapter about the Paris River Police in his book Paris on the Seine, taking a walk on the riverfront used to be begging for trouble- that was way back at the turn of the 20th century. Since then, the Paris’s River Brigade whose sole responsibility would have been the river and its quais, has diminished in a big way. (Considering that Paris on the Seine was published in the 1960s, I’m wondering if the River Brigade still exists (it numbered 33 policemen …
Date: March 27th, 2007 |
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Paris Markets - an Inspiration for Home Cooking
Parisian Home Cooking
By Michael Roberts
Photographs by Pierre-Gilles Vidoli, 328 Pages. William Morrow, NY 1981
If ever two books were meant to be read in tandem, it would have to be Markets of Paris by Dixon and Ruthanne Long and Parisian Home Cooking: Conversations, Recipes, and Tips from the Cooks and Food Merchants of Paris by Michael Roberts, Published by William Morrow and Co. NY, 1981, Photos by Pierre-Gilles Vidoli.
Date: March 15th, 2007 |
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