French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French

Rochefort, Harriet Welty

ISBN 10: 0312642784 / ISBN 13: 9780312642785

Editore: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2010

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• Titolo: French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
• Editore: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0312642784
• ISBN 13: 9780312642785
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many dream of one day doing-she picked up and moved to France. But it has not been twenty years of fun and games; Harriet has endured her share of cultural bumps, bruises, and psychic adjustments along the way.

In French Toast, she shares her hard-earned wisdom and does as much as one woman can to demystify the French. She makes sense of their ever-so-French thoughts on food, money, sex, love, marriage, manners, schools, style, and much more. She investigates such delicate matters as how to eat asparagus, how to approach Parisian women, how to speak to merchants, how to drive, and, most important, how to make a seven-course meal in a silk blouse without an apron! Harriet's first-person account offers both a helpful reality check and a lot of very funny moments.

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Harriet Welty Rochefort was born in Shenandoah, Iowa. She moved permanently to France in 1971. She is a freelance journalist who has contributed articles to major newspapers and magazine, including Time and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Her column, "A Letter from Paris," can be found on-line in the Paris Pages. She has also taught journalism in the English Department of the prestigious Institut d'Etudes Politiques. She, her husband, Phillipe, and their sons live in Paris.

Harriet Welty Rochefort grew up in Shenandoah, Iowa. A lifelong attraction to France led her to visit Paris during college. In 1971, she hopped on a freighter to Cadiz and ended up in France once again---this time to stay. A freelance journalist, Harriet teaches journalism at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. She regularly lectures on Franco-American cultural differences based on French Toast and her second book, French Fried. Visit her Web site at www.understandfrance.org.