Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One (Champagne, Alsace, Lorraine, and Paris regions)

An intimate peek inside French homes and lives, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre or “peasant foods”), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditions—sprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memories—this culinary food and travel memoir reveals French families at their best and at their own dinner tables.

O privire intima in casele si vietile franceze, o colectie de retete traditionale franceze (cuisine pauvre sau ,,mancaruri taranesti") si un compendiu de traditii culturale culinare - presarate cu anecdote istorice si condimentate cu umor si amintiri delicios de sincere - aceasta mancare culinara si Memoriile de calatorie dezvaluie familiile franceze in cele mai bune conditii si la propriile lor mese de cina.