A review by rixenr
My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories by David Lebovitz

4.0

Having lived on and off in Paris for the past few years, I can always relate to David's commentary on the city on his blog and his books. He endearingly writes about all the things we Americans love about Paris- and all the things that make us want to pull our hair out. I appreciate Lebovitz's work because it's clear he lives and breathes Paris, unlike so many books that get published where it's clear that the writers have only visited and not spent much time there and are just capitalizing on the Paris trend (Everything seems to have an Eiffel Tower on it these days). His last book, "The Sweet Life in Paris," was a memoir that humorously touched on all the little nuances of Parisian life, like grumpy Franprix cashiers and feeling obligated to wear nice clothes just to take out the garbage, and it was peppered with recipes at the end of each chapter. "My Paris Kitchen" is the opposite; it's a cookbook sparingly interjected with little tidbits of his life in Paris. The recipes all sound delicious, though I was hoping there would be more snippets about Paris to chuckle and relate to. My sole complaint is that the majority of the French he uses in the book is misspelled or incorrect, which was distracting (The editor sure didn't check on his French!).