Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth BardMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book was fun. First, I once again got to learn about Paris. Second, it was about food, and Three, it was about family. Well, it was more about Elizabeth herself, but family was tied into it.
I think I'm fascinated by cooking with fresh food. While I am not adventurous when it comes to different foods, I am more and more liking being able to eat fresh food. I don't like to cook out of a can (well, that's not entirely true, there are some foods, like canned tomatoes, that do make for an easy recipe), and do like cooking with foods fresh from market. I'm not quite sure how I'd do in a meat market, but I do love going to the Butcher. To me, that's the beauty of the book, cooking with fresh food every day, and just in the amounts you need.
Elizabeth weaves in her recipes with stories about herself, her husband, family and friends. I also really appreciated how she compared the stress driven American lifestyle with the slower paced French culture. I'm attracted to slowing down in life and not letting myself be stressed by things I can't control. I have so much to learn in this area, and somehow, chopping (with a knife, not a blender), slicing and dicing does help me get in a slower mode.
To clarify, although the book was a fun read, there are some serious issues addressed--cancer, sense of self-worth, taking risks toward making dreams come true, making friends in a foreign country and more. For me though, the crowning touch of this particular book was the recipes. I mean to try more than a few.
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