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Title: On Rue Tatin : Living and Cooking in a French Town by Susan Herrmann Loomis ISBN: 0-7679-0455-9 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (34 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Mouth Watering
Comment: Susan Herrmann Loomis' book on living in the French countryside should come with a warning: Do not read this book hungry!
Not only does she end each chapter with some amazing recipes, but much of the book is spent in loving detail describing all the various types of food in the region.A baguette smeared with butter has never read better.
Similar in tone to Frances Mayes Tuscany books,but this is less about restoring a house and more about daily life in the town with her husband and child. Simple, and satisfying it is a charming and wonderful escapist read. One that when you finish, will make you want to brush up on your French, and book the next flight out.
Rating: 4
Summary: French Life and Cuisine
Comment: Susan Loomis fell in love with France, the French and French cooking when she was a young student 20 years ago. After an apprenticeship at La Varenne de Cuisine in Paris and her subsequent marriage to Michael Loomis, she decides to emigrate. They buy a dilapidated former convent in Louviers, France in 1994 and their story really gets underway.
ON RUE TATIN tells about the renovation of the house as well as the story of their adjustment to French culture, the friends and workmen they encounter, and the life they live as modern expatriots. Having established a reputation and published a cookbook, Loomis writes another throughout the development of this memoir and she includes some of her recipes in this volume.
Loomis is a pedestrian writer at best, so the charm of the book rests on the experiences of the author and the usefulness of the recipes. I tried one -- the chocolate cake -- and found it delicious.
Sunnye Tiedemann
Rating: 4
Summary: A Pleasure - Despite Some Reviews Here (Ignore Them)
Comment: Why do we read this type of text except for a vicarious thrill and the gleaning of little details of French life? I can't understand the sometimes negative reviews here. This isn't a work of fiction and these people seem to be reading it in the wrong spirit if they expect it to be. For what it is, a chronicle of one woman/family's life in France, I found it enjoyable and would recommend it. If a few readers are by now jaded thinking it yet ANOTHER Peter Mayle, Ann Barry, et al. tale, well then they need to move on and read something else instead of expecting to find magic over and over in sameness. Enjoyable. And it has some recipes. Buy it.
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Title: French Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis, Patricia Wells ISBN: 1563054884 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: From Here, You Can't See Paris : Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant by Michael S. Sanders ISBN: 0060184728 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris by Sarah Turnbull ISBN: 1592400388 Publisher: Gotham Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Italian Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Herrmann Loomis, Anne Smith ISBN: 0761105271 Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle ISBN: 0375705619 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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