The French ingredient : making a life in Paris one lesson at a time : a memoir

The French ingredient Making a life in Paris one lesson at a time : a memoir

Jane Bertch

Large print - 2024

"When Jane Bertch was eighteen, her mother took her on a graduation trip to Paris. Thrilled to use her high-school French, Jane found her halting attempts greeted with withering condescension by every waiter and shopkeeper she encountered. At the end of the trip, she vowed she would never return. Yet a decade later she found herself back in Paris, transferred there by the American bank she worked for. She became fluent in the language and excelled in her new position. But she had a different dream: to start a cooking school for foreigners like her, who wanted to take a few classes in French cuisine in a friendly setting, then bring their new skills to their kitchens back home. Predictably, Jane faced the skeptical French -- how dare an... American banker start a cooking school in Paris? -- as well as real-estate nightmares, and a long struggle to find and attract clients. Thanks to Jane's perseverance, La Cuisine Paris opened in 2009. Now the school is thriving, welcoming international visitors to come in and knead dough, whisk bechamel, whip meringue, and learn the care, precision, patience, and beauty involved in French cooking."--

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Subjects
Bertch, Jane.
La Cuisine Paris.
Cooks > France > Paris > Biography.
Cooking schools > France > Paris.
Large type books.
France > Social life and customs.
Autobiographies.
Large print books.
Genres
Autobiographies
Large print books
Published
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Jane Bertch (author)
Other Authors
Jessie Kanelos Weiner (illustrator)
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition
Item Description
Regular print version previously published by Ballantine Books.
Physical Description
352 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN
9798891641235
  • Author's Note
  • Prologue
  • 1. And Paris Laughed
  • 2. How to Tame a Friend
  • 3. On Life and Cheese
  • 4. Cracking Le Code
  • 5. Seduction for Dummies
  • 6. A View of the Seine
  • 7. We All Speak Food
  • 8. It's Not Business, It's Personal
  • 9. The Unsinkable
  • 10. When You Know a Non Is Not a Non
  • 11. The Customer Artisan Is King
  • 12. We Only Talk Butter Here
  • 13. "We Are at War"
  • 14. La Cuisine the Miracle
  • 15. Of Grinches and Whos
  • Acknowledgments

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