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**In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award–winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson’s, tells how he became one of Paris’s most influential food critics** Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of __Women’s Wear Daily__, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani. Over a superb lunch, it’s his landlady who ultimately provides him with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: “you must understand the intentions of the cook.” At the city’s brasseries and bistros, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia Child to Ruth Reichl, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice. Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the Parisian dining revolution and th

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Author

Alexander Lobrano; Robert Fass

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9782020044141

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Cooking, Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (380 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14