This is a recipe for love if I have ever heard one — and it captures your attention with the very first line: “I slept with my French husband halfway through our first date!” Elizabeth’s Bards first date was, in fact, lunch in a Paris café with a handsome stranger named Gwendal–and so begins Elizabeth’s…

It is now ten years later since Elizabeth wrote Lunch in Paris and New York best-selling author and cook, Elizabeth Bard has followed her handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way and the world’s flakiest croissant around the corner, Elizabeth…

If you have ever wondered how the French really eat, look no further than Dinner Chez Moi.  Following up on her last book, Picnic in Provence, Elizabeth has now gathered a treasure trove of culinary information that has radically changed her own eating habits for the better. She realized that what most Americans call “dieting”…

An adventurous and feisty Australian journalist meets a charming cravat-wearing French lawyer named Frédéric in Bucharest. Frédéric invites Sarah to visit him in Paris where he lives. Sarah takes a leap of faith governed either by pure instinct or folly, and fortunately, enters into a relationship that evolves into a grand love affair. Things take…

Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So, she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it’s too late. Even though her husband can’t join them, even though she’s nervous about the journey, and even though she’s perfectly healthy, Jennifer is…

Finding Me in France is a hoot! This is a laugh out loud memoir by someone who I cannot think of as a more unlikely candidate to go and live in France! Bobbi French (yes indeed that is her last name) leaves her fulfilling yet draining career as a psychiatrist (and as you grow to…

This bestselling memoir inspired Julie & Julia, the major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia. Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child’s legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in…

This is Julia Child’s beguiling story in her own words. Step back with Julia as a young wife following her husband to France who has a new posting at the U.S. Embassy. Julia struggles to find her own sense of purpose, and finally stumbles into a passion for cooking and teaching that transforms culinary history.…

If you want to explore what is really behind our obsession with Paris, this is the book for you. Katrina is Australian, and a journalist specializing in beauty and fashion. Musing on everything Parisian, from femininity to feminism, politics to perfume, and of course, those stylish Parisiennes who captivate us, from Brigitte Bardot and Madame…

Suzy Gershman’s journey just grabs you. Suzy is well known for authoring her around-the-world “Born To Shop” guidebooks. In her memoir, she moves to Paris hoping to revive herself from the grief of losing her husband.  With all the trials and tribulations Suzy experiences and there are plenty of them, you wonder how she maintained…