Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One (Champagne, Alsace, Lorraine, and Paris regions)

An intimate peek inside French homes and lives, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre or “peasant foods”), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditions—sprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memories—this culinary food and travel memoir reveals French families at their best and at their own dinner tables.