Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris
by Clotilde Dusoulier
Overview
From the publisher:
Now in Clotilde’s Edible Adventures in Paris, Clotilde reveals her all-time favorite food experiences in her native city. She takes us on a mouthwatering tour of the restaurants, markets, and shops she loves the most: from the best places to go for lunch, tea, or a glass of wine, to “neo bistros” and the newest places to find spectacular yet affordable meals. Packed with advice on everything from deciphering a French menu to ordering coffee correctly, this book is like having Clotilde as a personal guide. A dozen tempting recipes are also included, shared or inspired by Clotilde’s favorite chefs and bakers.
For first-time visitors and seasoned travelers alike, Clotilde’s Edible Adventures in Paris offers invaluable insider recommendations on eating and shopping with Parisian panache.
The best of Paris, featuring 164 restaurants, bistros, wine bars, and salons de thé, as well as over 130 bakeries, pastry shops, cheese shops, bookstores, chocolate and candy shops, cookware and tableware stores, specialty shops, outdoor markets, and much, much more!
My Thoughts
Unless you're heading to Paris in the near future, you don't really need a book like this one. However, it was a gift given to me at Christmas by a dear friend who knows I want to go there some day, and so I decided to have some fun with it.
Every evening I open the book to a random page and "go to dinner" at the restaurant on that page! If the restaurant write-up has a website, I go to the website to look at the menu and select my dinner! I'm learning a lot about the restaurants in France, as well as the etiquette that goes along with French cuisine. I'm also learning that eating in Paris can indeed be an adventure!
Reading the book in this way makes it the gift that keeps on giving and it's oodles of fun! I look forward to it every day!
(And on a side note, the person who gave me the book sometimes chooses the restaurant and "takes me to dinner"! How fun is that?!)
Favorite Passage
The proper way to eat cheese is this: tear off a bite-size piece of bread and hold it, crumb side up, with the fingertips of your left hand. Holding your knife in your right hand, cut a bite-sized piece of cheese, pick or scoop it up with the tip of the blade, and deposit it on the prepared piece of bread, which you'll bring to your mouth using your left hand. Chew, moan, swallow, and repeat.
