Articles tagged ‘Books’
Paris Restaurant Guides: Pudlo in English
By Parisgirl | July 11th, 2007 |
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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 [...]
Weird Restaurants in Paris
By Parisgirl | June 24th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Seeing Paris in the Blink of an Eye
By Parisgirl | May 24th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
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.
Quote for the Day
By Parisgirl | April 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“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 [...]
Chinese Astrology - with a French Twist
By Parisgirl | April 2nd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
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 [...]
Naughty Girls’ Paris: Mark this on your calendar!
By Parisgirl | March 30th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
“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 [...]
Policing the Seine
By Parisgirl | March 27th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Paris Reading - Books to Put on Your List
By Parisgirl | March 22nd, 2007 | 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Paris Markets - an Inspiration for Home Cooking
By Parisgirl | March 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
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 [...]
To Market, to market! Guides to Paris Markets
By Parisgirl | March 14th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hot off the Press.
I’ve just received a copy of Markets of Paris by Dixon and Ruthanne Long with photographs by Alison Harris. Publisher: The Little Book Room, New York.
$16.95. 255 pages.
Before saying anything about the contents, I’d like to mention that The Little Book Room has had the brilliant idea to publish books [...]
