Following the death of her father, Molly took herself away to Paris, a city that ‘held vivid memories of a childhood trip with her father, of early morning walks on the cobbled streets of the Latin Quarter and the taste of her first pain au chocolat’. There she discovered that her heart was in the kitchen, and she goes on to tell a tale of cooking, eating, reading and love (with recipes!).
It’s funny, reflective, inspiring, and you can almost taste the vanilla bean buttermilk cake. Yum
Other book recommendations for this week:
ART: manolo blahnik drawings - a collection of sketches of some of the world's most gorgeous shoes
ADVENTURE: eat, pray, love by Elizabeth Gilbert - 'one woman's search for everything'
STORY: The Open Hand by Chris Cleave - on the back cover it says 'We don't want to tell you what happens in this book. It's a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it'. I won't spoil it either, just say that it is stunning and shocking, sad and uplifting in equal measure
Posts
Oh this book looks amazing. SO does eat, pray, love! On my way to go check into these.
ReplyDeletethanks for this recommendation, Beth! my boyfriend loves to cook so it may be a gift this holiday =-)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your kind words, Beth! I wish my tour were going to bring me to the UK. I would love that. Someday, I hope...
ReplyDeletevanilla bean buttermilk cake? seriously?
ReplyDeletei was going to start out my week eating well, but if i go get this book, that cake will be sitting on my table by dinner.
i LOVE books like this and hadn.t heard of her, so i am off to go peek at her blog.
maybe she.ll come to phoenix and i can go hear her FOR you.
i.ll take good notes.
loves to you dear friend.
c
(ps what have you created lately?)