from frisbeesage

Lunch in Paris is Elizabeth Bard's memoir of falling in love with a Frenchman over a pave au poivre for lunch. As the relationship advances she moves to Paris and encounters all the typical, but somehow never tiresome, dilemmas of an American in Paris. Like many before her she also falls in love ...

from michigantrumpet

This is a love story. Not so much the romance between American born Elizabeth Bard and yummy Gwendel started over lunch and stretching through marriage and beyond. And really not even between Elizabeth and her newly adopted home, France. Life as an ex-pat, even one as enthusiastic as she, can be ...

from BookConcierge

Subtitle: A Love Story, With Recipes When Bard was a graduate student in England (art history), she took a weekend trip to Paris, where she met and had lunch with a Frenchman. And the rest, as they say, is history. This is a charming memoir where Bard explores the many differences between French ...

from etxgardener

This book is like a big chocolate bon-bon; full of wonderful views of life in Paris with the extra treat of some marvelous recipes thrown in as a lagnaippe Elizabeth Bard is an aspiring writer/museum curator doing graduate work in London when she meets Gwendal on a trip to Paris. It only takes a ...

from bookstar

I would have liked this book so much more if I hadn't already read a similar book about a girl who moves to Pairs after finding love and struggles with all that it means to be an American in a foreign city; a city that has different rules, tougher social standards and is just so different than NY...