Elizabeth Bard

I thought this was going to be one of those frivolous and hopefully fun reads about a woman to goes to live in France. I was pleasantly surprised to find it was that and more. Elizabeth Bard has some interesting and perceptive things to say about expat life and about some of the differences between American and French culture. The only problem was that I had bought a used copy from an Amazon seller and it turned out that quite a few of the pages were missing, so although I liked the book, I didn't get to read it all!

Oh, and did I say there were recipes in the book? Some are very appealing, but having tried one, I have to say that the lists of ingredients are probably more useful than the method, which is not well explained (at least in some of the recipes). Most (but unfortunately not all) of the pages that were torn out were of recipes. I hope that whoever did that dastardly deed doesn't realize the insufficiencies in the methods instructions and suffers poor results. Hummmpf!… (more)