A couple of years ago, following links from one blog to another, as one does, I came upon a woman named Laura, an American living in France. At her site, I found a person who understands the funky sounds of New Jersey Neopolitan accents and knows how to pick the perfect eggplant from a market stand. I was hooked.
We’ve exchanged comments every so often, but work has sucked me further from the blogospere than I really meant to be, so when I visited recently and learned she had a book coming out, it was a surprise.
Of course I immediately ordered it.
And while it did not arrive on my birthday, it did arrive during my birthday MONTH, so I’m considering it a sort of present to myself.
The book? My Keyboard for a Cutting Board: Adventures in a French Kitchen v1.0, by Laura Pauli.
If the strawberries brazenly displayed on the cover don’t draw you in, the writing will.
It’s worth it, eh? It sounds good, kind of like “My Life in France” by Julia Child and Alex Prud’Homme. I’d like to order it, but I’d like to see inside, first…
Meliss - thank you SO much!!! I hope you enjoy it! and a belated and very happy birtday to you! bonne aniversaire et bisous de Paris, Laura
Interesting title. I’ll have to give it a browse sometime.