lunch in paris (book report)

As you can see from the book title above, I’m still a bit obsessed with Paris these days. I originally found “Lunch in Paris” in an English bookstore near the Louvre. Kathi and I were browsing for French dessert cookbooks and I happened across this charming memoir/recipe book. I jotted down the title on a piece of paper then forgot about it for months.

Recently, however, I started reading a bunch of cookbooks and remembered I wanted to check out this one: New Jersey girl meets Parisien man, moves to France, marries and settles in Paris. The book is lovely. It’s a fast read and the recipes are simple and straightforward. I really want to try out the Yogurt Cake as it looks easy enough for a novice baker like me. Elizabeth doesn’t use her own recipe though; she references one by Clotilde Dusoulier, author of “Chocolate & Zucchini” – in a complete coincidence, I checked out “Chocolate & Zucchini” from the library at the same time!

Rather than report the recipe here, I’m including a link to it on Clotilde’s blog: http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2005/10/yogurt_cake.php

Before we went to Paris last year, I bought her other book, “Clotilde’s Edible Adventures in Paris”. I also copied down the addendums from her website and took them with us. She provided great guidance to many of the boulangeries, pâtisseries and restaurants we went to!