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Harriet Welty Rochefort

    Tento autor skúma zložité vzťahy medzi Francúzskom a Spojenými štátmi prostredníctvom svojho písania. Jeho diela, často zasadené do pulzujúceho parížskeho prostredia, zachytávajú esenciu kaviarňového života a každodenných okamihov. Prostredníctvom pozorovateľského oka a prenikavého štýlu autor prináša jedinečný pohľad na život vo Francúzsku a zdôrazňuje kultúrne nuansy a osobné zážitky.

    French Toast
    • French Toast

      • 128 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many of dream of one day doing-she picked up and moved to France. But it has not been twenty years of fun and games; Harriet has endured her share of cultural bumps, bruises, and psychic adjustments along the way. In French Toast, she shares her hard-earned wisdom and does as much as one woman can to demystify the French. She makes sense of their ever-so-French thoughts on food, money, sex, love, marriage, manners, schools, style, and much more. She investigates such delicate matters as how to eat asparagus, how to approach Parisian women, how to speak to merchants, how to drive, and, most important, how to make a seven-course meal in a silk blouse without an apron! Harriet's first-person account offers both a helpful reality check and a lot of very funny moments.

      French Toast1997
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