A review by blchandler9000
My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories by David Lebovitz

3.0

This is a pretty decent cookbook. It's a handsome volume—the layout and photography are both attractive—and the recipes are solid and relatively simple. Lebovitz demystifies food that appears complex and involved with his easy-to-follow instructions and laid back writing style. It's not strictly a "French" cookbook; it's more a "Lebovitz" one. There's quiche and coq au vin, but also carrot cake and Israeli couscous. On the whole, it's a very informal-feeling book, with just as many essays about Lebovitz's life and opinions as recipes. Because of this, the book doesn't always so much inspire cooking as it does just perusing Lebovitz's friendly, story and advice-laden writing.