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- From Gloria H. : "I have just finished reading your book
French Toast. It has been my bedtime reading over
the past two weeks. However the problem is that I do not fall
asleep, but many nights ended up staying up later than I should
have and I was late for work twice as a result of oversleeping" (Dec.2007)
- from Eileen M. : Since my daughter offered to take
me to Paris next spring, I have been reading up on Paris and
France. Your French Toast was the best all-around collection
of stories revealing French attitudes and character that I have found. It was exactly what I was looking
for, not just history, or a guide book, but a helpful explanation of French thinking
and etiquette. I hope to
understand a people before I visit their country. You have helped
to make my trip much more enjoyable.
- From Georgina G. : Thanks for sharing your wit and wisdom
with Francophiles around the globe.
- From Becky B., Tennesee : Having read numerous books on French
and the French, plus having lived in Paris, I was skeptical that
I would come across any new information. How wrong was I! This
book is a fabulous find and highly amusing. I particularly enjoyed
the opening chapter when Harriet talks about her childhood and
how she always felt as if every knock at the door was someone
coming to take her away and that she always knew she would live
somewhere far
away from her small town.
I feel the same way! As a 19 year old in a small Southern town
in Tennessee, I only hope that I will have the success with finding
a French man (I'm moving back to Paris in August) that Harriet
did. I really loved the book.
- From Kevin D: I want to thank you for the wonderful
Sunday afternoon you gave me with your fantastic book, "French
Toast"....I have always dreamed of coming to Paris and after reading your book... I plan
on making it there and who knows love might find its way to me
as well...Again thank you so much for sharing your book with
the world.
- From Heidi K. (a Bookstore
person): Just wanted
to jot down a note to you. I loved your book. I will be in Paris
later this month and was having a terrible time with the travel
guides finding
out about the people who are the country. You really helped. I work in a Barnes @ Noble
and last week when I was shelving (your book), a woman asked
me how it was. I told her. She bought it. Said she was leaving
for Paris in an hour and that was just what she was looking for
too. Just thought you should know.
- From Linda O-F: I read your book earlier this year
(a wonderful gift from an American friend living in Paris). I
roared with laughter--been married to a Frenchman for 15 years (we live in Eastern PA) and could
really relate.
- From Mark S. Quel honneur! I just finished reading
"French Toast," and I located your e-mail address as
quickly as I could to thank you for writing such a delightful
book! J'éudie le français depuis trois ans, and
since then, France, its language, and its culture have become
for me a veritable passion ... I could truly empathize with the
feelings you expressed in your book: being "etiquettely"
sound, fearing being foiled by marchands, yearning for a convincing
accent, etc. And, in my going on three years of studies, I've
not yet read such a comprehensive or amusing overview of the culture.
Bravo! Thank you for your
book, and thank you for taking the time to read this! Keep up
the good work. :)
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- A reader from Paris France writes : "Another tour
de force from the author of French Toast! The flavor of France
is vividly captured and she
makes it easy to understand why so many of us who discovered
this wonderful country have never left it. Tired of ingesting
garbage that calls itself food? You'll never do it again once
you have read French Fried."
- A reader from North Carolina writes : "I
loved the author's self-deprecating humor as she tells the story
of her love of French food and shares the wealth of information
she has gleaned both from living in France for three decades
and from talking with some of the foremost people in France's
food world. After reading what she says about cheese, I can't wait for my next
trip to France to feast on
some "real" Brie. Meanwhile, her tips on what makes
a good cheese plate have been put to use as have her simple but
delicious recipes. After a spate of books from food "experts",
most of whom couldn't mix up a simple green salad, this book
is a gem."
- A review on Amazon.com
by a reader from Denver, CO. USA : Rochefort's follow-up
to "French Toast" focuses on the culinary differences
between America and France, which have lead to huge differences
in culture, lifestyle, and waistlines. With a breezy style and
self-deprecating wit, she demystifies what the French cook, how
they cook it, how they eat it, and how it enhances the pleasures
of life. Surely
one of the pleasures in life is relaxing with this book and a
nice glass of red wine. It's
been an interesting experience to read this book (a celebration
of good food, good wine, and a high quality of life) alongside
Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" (a wonderfully
written and thoroughly depressing exploration of the rise of
fast food in the U.S. during the latter half of the 20th century
and its impact on our culture). Rochefort, too, warns of the
encroachment of McDonalds and other American fast-food enterprises
on the French culinary landscape; she notes that she hopes her
observations of French cuisine will not serve as a memorial of
such an inherent part of French culture. Reading these two books
side-by-side guarantees that you will never eat fast food again.
And to make certain of that, Rochefort includes several tried-and-true
French recipes. The ones I've tried have been simple and delicious!
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Harriet Welty
Rochefort writes articles and books about France and the French.
Order her books :
- "Joie de Vivre", Secrets of Wining, Dining and Romancing like the French, St.Martin's Press, New York, 2012
- "French Toast, An American in Paris
Celebrates The Maddening Mysteries of the French", St.Martin's Press,
New York, 1999
- "French Fried, The Culinary Capers
of An American in Paris", St.Martin's Press, New York, 2001
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