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My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories [A Cookbook] Kindle Edition

by David Lebovitz (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 out of 5 stars 1,573 ratings
Goodreads Choice Award nominee
A collection of stories and 100 sweet and savory French-inspired recipes that reflect the way Parisians eat today, featuring lush Parisian photography

“David Lebovitz is a rare specimen: both a terrific storyteller and a brilliant, uncompromising recipe writer.”—Yotam Ottolenghi

In 2004, David Lebovitz packed up his most treasured cookbooks, a well-worn cast-iron skillet, and his laptop and moved to Paris. In that time, the culinary culture of France has shifted as a new generation of chefs and home cooks—most notably in Paris—incorporates ingredients and techniques from around the world into traditional French dishes.

In My Paris Kitchen, David remasters the classics, introduces lesser-known fare, and presents 100 sweet and savory recipes that reflect the way modern Parisians eat today. You’ll find Soupe à l’oignon, Cassoulet, Coq au vin, and Croque-monsieur, as well as Smoky barbecue-style pork, Lamb shank tagine, Dukkah-roasted cauliflower, Salt cod fritters with tartar sauce, and Wheat berry salad with radicchio, root vegetables, and pomegranate. And of course, there’s dessert: Warm chocolate cake with salted butter caramel sauce, Duck fat cookies, Bay leaf poundcake with orange glaze, French cheesecake . . . and the list goes on.

David also shares stories told with his trademark wit and humor; and lush photography taken on location around Paris and in David’s kitchen reveals the quirks, trials, beauty, and joys of life in the culinary capital of the world.
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“David Lebovitz is a rare specimen: both a terrific storyteller and a brilliant, uncompromising recipe writer. His lighthearted, almost satirical style is combined with far-reaching knowledge of food and its context. I’d follow him blindfolded on this journey to the City of Light.” 
-Yotam Ottolenghi, coauthor of Jerusalem
 
“David Lebovitz is a chef who can write better than most food writers, a writer who can hold his own in any restaurant kitchen in the world, and, most of all, a guy who simply rejoices in food and cooking. This may be his most personal cookbook, describing all facets of his cooking life in Paris, with great stories, information, and recipes. I need two copies of this book: one for the kitchen and another by my reading chair.” 
-Michael Ruhlman, author of Ruhlman’s Twenty
 
“Opening this beautiful book is like opening the door to David’s Paris. Of course, you get great recipes, but you also get to wander the world’s most delicious city with a friend who knows it well and is excited to share it with you. A treat for those of us who love French home cooking, Paris, and David’s take on it all.” 
-Dorie Greenspan, author of Around My French Table
 
“David Lebovitz is the ultimate American in Paris and this book is the ultimate insight into his beautiful and delicious world. I am beyond jealous!” 
-Suzanne Goin, author of The A.O.C. Cookbook

 In My Paris Kitchen, Lebovitz weaves together inviting and insightful tales about his adopted city with a collection of smart, fun recipes. Some of these are total French classics—think oeufs mayo and green lentil salad—while others give a nod to the ethnic diversity in the city. In a nod to his pastry background, Lebovitz includes a substantial dessert section, but it's clear from the breadth of the book that his Paris kitchen is filled with so much more than sweets. Here is a cookbook to take to a comfy chair and read cover to cover.
-Serious Eats
 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FUZR04O
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 8, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 44.0 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 680 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1607742685
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Author of The Perfect Scoop, the complete guide to making the best ice cream and frozen desserts at home, Ready for Dessert, a compilation of baking favorites, from an extra-moist Fresh Ginger Cake, to crunchy Double-Chocolate Biscotti, My Paris Kitchen, stories and recipes from the glorious foods markets and shops in Paris, and Drinking French, recipes and stories inspired by the iconic café drinks, apéritifs, and cocktails of France.

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Customers find this cookbook engaging, with stories and recipes that are spot-on and easy for any level of cook to follow. Moreover, the writing is captivating, making it read like a novel, and customers appreciate the helpful tips and flavor explosions in the recipes. Additionally, the book serves as a great gift for cooks and provides a lovely trip to Paris through its stories about the city.

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259 customers mention "Readability"254 positive5 negative

Customers find the cookbook readable, describing it as a beautiful book with delightful recipes and accompanying stories that make it a wonderfully fulfilling read.

"Great book. So many good recipes." Read more

"...Very easy recipes. Nice pictures and stories. I recommended it and just gifted it to a friend." Read more

"...most of the U.S. is melting ( you gotta love CO) enjoying this beautiful book full of stories and pictures...." Read more

"...recipes I've tried so far, all have turned out great and it's been a great read." Read more

226 customers mention "Recipes"213 positive13 negative

Customers enjoy the recipes in this cookbook, describing them as culinary delights that are very easy for any level of cook to follow.

"Not only great recipes which you can actually make, but absolutely fabulous stories about his life in Paris...." Read more

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"Excellent cookbook. Great recipes and stories to go with them. Fun to cook and read" Read more

"...Great cookbook and I highly recommend it." Read more

79 customers mention "Writing quality"79 positive0 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the cookbook, noting that it reads like a novel and is captivating.

"...I have already made several of the recipes and I find them well written and easy to follow...." Read more

"...This guy is a great writer 📚..." Read more

"...David Lebowitz is an entertaining writer and experienced chef...." Read more

"...The writing is clear and concise and the recipes are easy to follow." Read more

41 customers mention "Information quality"41 positive0 negative

Customers find the cookbook informative, with helpful tips and great explanations throughout.

"...just love it, the stories are funny, interesting, memoir-like and educational all at the same time...." Read more

"What great tips and ideas this book has, and with wonderful results!..." Read more

"...Great explanations. I love the book." Read more

"...It's a good fun read And good for the class, nicely illustrated. I doubt that I would have purchased it if not required for the class!" Read more

32 customers mention "Taste"32 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the taste of the recipes, describing them as delicious with flavor explosions, and one customer specifically mentions golden and crispy frites and perfectly seasoned beef.

"...I still cannot describe how delicious this sandwich was. It was so far beyond any sandwich I've ever tasted...." Read more

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"...The dulce de leche chocolate tart is amazing. The recipes are easy to follow and the stories are extremely enjoyable." Read more

"...I’m excited to have my own copy for delicious treats and stories that invoke my own memories of brief visits to Paris...." Read more

31 customers mention "Ease of use"31 positive0 negative

Customers find the cookbook easy to follow and not too fussy.

"...one of his recipes I've tried have turned out perfectly and are easy to follow...." Read more

"...and the recipes we have tried have been delicious, flavorful and easy to make...." Read more

"...I treasure this book. David Lebovitz makes everything sound fun and easy, and he explains things in a way that is very clear...." Read more

"...It is easy to like My Paris Kitchen. It is easy to like David Lebovitz...." Read more

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Customers find the cookbook to be a great addition to their collection, particularly as a gift for cooks, with several mentioning it makes a beautiful kitchen-themed wedding shower gift.

"With one of her grandmother's vintage aprons, a beautiful kitchen-themed wedding shower gift for a niece who has loved France and things French in..." Read more

"Great addition to my collection. I plan to purchase more of his books after reading this one." Read more

"Awesome collection. Love his writing and his recipes!" Read more

"Great gift, my niece loves it." Read more

26 customers mention "Perspective"26 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the cookbook's perspective on Paris, with stories about the city's markets and personal experiences of moving there. One customer notes how it makes the city feel closer, while another describes it as traveling through Paris with an expert chef.

"...the reader to Paris and shares his account of daily life in this fabulous City as an outsider who is moving in...." Read more

"...I also enjoy the stories about and the photographs of the city which has never ceased to fascinate me...." Read more

"...relishing both the delicious recipes and the anecdotes and reflections on life in Paris...." Read more

"...All the stories he included about Paris, and his trials and tribulations of moving to Paris, his appreciation of food, especially desserts, made for..." Read more

Great book for exploring french cuisine.
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Great book for exploring french cuisine.
Easy to follow recipes. Tried the oven baked fries and French onion soup. Both dishes did not disappoint. Extremely delicious. A great addition to the cook book collection.
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  • Don Jr
    5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of a book.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2015
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    If I could give this book more stars I'd do it. David's writing is captivating. This is the first cook book I've actually read. It helps that this is my form of cooking. It's my gig. I took some food service courses back around 1991 after I graduated from college, so I'm not a rookie by any means.

    I got this book last Friday. I spent a few hours with it on Saturday and on Sunday I entertained with the multigrain bread and the Coq Au Vin. I followed the recipe for the Coq Au Vin to a T, although I don't use measuring devices. I used the best quality ingredients I could find and spent about $14 on a bottle of Cote du Rhone. Wow, this meal was just amazing. The bread was cooked in a 7 1/4 quart Le Creuset Dutch oven. It looked exactly like the picture in the book.

    On to Monday. We had the day off and I decided I'd make the Coq Monsieur. I still cannot describe how delicious this sandwich was. It was so far beyond any sandwich I've ever tasted. The béchamel lends itself so well to the compte or gruyere. I am not kidding when I tell you to make this sandwich with the best ingredients possible and surrender yourself to your doctor the next morning. If you're ever going to die eating a sandwich, this will be that time.

    Third night in a row, it's now Tuesday. I made the ribeye steak with the mustard butter and frites. For the steak, I chose the cilantro, hickory salt and chipotle powder. I seasoned the steaks (very thin small ribeyes I like to use) and let rest in the fridge for over an hour while the frites soaked. I used fresh thyme for the frites. Wow!!! The frites were golden and crispy That mustard butter made this perfectly seasoned cut of beef sing. The best ever. Wow!!!! Just wow. Flavor explosion.

    The recipes in this book are so nicely balanced.
    I love everything about this book. My wife and I have a flat rented in the 8th for September of 2015 and we will be cooking some of David's recipes while were there. Maybe David will be down wind of it.
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  • S. Lovich
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great food writing, great recipes
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2024
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    I did not expect to like this cookbook so much. I think it’s bc his writing style gave me such pleasure. I really enjoyed reading a cookbook!!
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  • JC in CO
    5.0 out of 5 stars So fun to read!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2023
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    Admittedly I haven’t made a single recipe in this book - I just had shoulder surgery but I can’t wait to try. More importantly 😂 it’s a great read. Yes, I read cookbooks like I do novels. So I’m sitting out on my deck with a coffee and croissant from a French style bakery in town, in a robe while most of the U.S. is melting ( you gotta love CO) enjoying this beautiful book full of stories and pictures. It’s my hope to someday attend short culinary courses in Europe (France, Italy) - this book gives a great picture of everyday cooking in Paris. This guy is a great writer 📚
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  • Barbara LaManna
    4.0 out of 5 stars A likeable book, but read The Sweet Life in Paris, too
    Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2014
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    Whenever I purchase a book written by a Chez Panisse alumnus, I do so with some trepidation, wondering how often or how intensely I will be beaten over the head with the Water’s mantra of “fresh and local” or how guilty I will feel slinking over to the frozen artichoke hearts rather than whittling down a whole (fresh and in-season, of course) artichoke to approximately the size of a quarter all the while praying that I have not left some errant “choke” for someone to …well…choke on. Although David Lebovitz did his time at Chez Pannise, My Paris Kitchen left me with none of those feelings. While there is certainly the exhortation to buy the best that you can in the way of supplies, there is also the nod to the realities of the “everyperson” kitchen. Possibly this attitude developed in the years when he first was in Paris in an apartment with a tiny stove and almost no room to cook.
    It is easy to like My Paris Kitchen. It is easy to like David Lebovitz. He is witty without being crass, and his dry humor is often shot through with insights concerning both himself and the people surrounding him. Lebovitz spices his recipes with background stories that are gleeful with the idiosyncrasies of life in Paris, but none of his comments on said idiosyncrasies are mean spirited. Lebovitz pokes as much fun at himself as he does his Parisian neighbors, and takes delight when he finds a way to make breakthroughs that bring him closer to other citizens of Paris. (He often uses his baked goods, especially chocolate ones, as a means to building friendships.)The recipes he has in the book are those that are part of his everyday (mostly) real life meals and translate pretty well to other people’s everyday lives.
    This is not to say that they are not, occasionally, difficult. Some , such as his cassoulet are a bit demanding, but they are all do-able if followed step by step.
    While it is easy to like My Paris Kitchen, It is even easier to enjoy My Paris Kitchen if one has read Lebovitz’s The Sweet Life in Paris (I came, luckily, upon a copy about two weeks before my pre-ordered book was set to arrive.) and that is one suggestion that I would make for anyone considering this book. Either prior to purchasing this book, or concurrent with reading this book, check out The Sweet Life in Paris. It is an earlier work and much of the material fleshes out what has been, to some degree, abbreviated in My Paris Kitchen. Armed with that information, the stories and comments in My Paris Kitchen become even more enjoyable. Without the benefit of the information in that book, some of the comments and references have a “flat” quality about them.
    For those who might be expecting a Paris travelogue of some kind, this is only that in a very limited sense. There are places that Lebovitz mentions as favorites of his, but they are usually mentioned in the context of a favorite food or dessert. This too adds a charm and creates a closer bond between the reader and the author, which isn’t surprising when one remembers that Lebovitz is a food blogger with a rather large following.
    The recipes are good and approachable, the pictures are done well, and the book is a pleasure to either read, or to thumb through at random. If Parisian cooking and one man’s view of Parisian life in general is of interest, this is a good book to add to one’s collection (but get The Sweet Life in Paris, too.)
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  • E Regina
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Book That Equally Teaches and Entertains
    Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    I bought this book based on my love for David Lebovitz's blog. I'm a novice cook who didn't step into the kitchen until I was 30 and really wanted a healthier box, can, and (mostly) microwave free diet. The thing that most attracted me towards Lebovitz's writing is that he has the heart of a teacher and that comes through in the way he writes. I do occasionally have to google the method to do something since my kitchen skills are pretty low but typically google directs me right back to Lebovitz's blog!

    I've made a solid number of sides and main recipes out of this book (haven't touched the desert section yet) and they have been incredible hits at the dinner table. My squash hating husband ate the squash soup. My veggie hating friend came over for a salad.

    Just be warned - if you're looking for five minute dinners or quick food this is not the book for you. Most of the dishes in this book do not come together quickly. Cooking from this book (and his blog) have taught me to enjoy the process of cooking and yes, even grocery shopping! Thanks to his inspiration I've sought out my local farmers market and am getting to know my local food producing community.
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  • cookbookaholic
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book by David Lebovitz
    Reviewed in Italy on July 24, 2016
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    David is one of the funniest writers around today. I am sure people thought I was crazy because I couldn't resist reading some at work when the book was delivered and I did guffaw quite a few times at passages David had written. The food in it is great, as is the photography. Worth it for any single aspect of a cookbook and for all of them together.
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  • Lorenab
    5.0 out of 5 stars Grandes ilustraciones y recetas
    Reviewed in Spain on October 18, 2016
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    Este libro va mas alla de la gastronomia e incluye fotos e historias sobre la cocina en Paris, sus calles y rincones... Es muy entretenido, casi mezcla entre historias y recetas. Muy bueno para cualquier aficionado a la cocina o a Paris
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  • Client d'Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stories and Recipes indeed
    Reviewed in France on May 23, 2017
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    One of the best food related books i read this year.
    its not just a book about recipes, about sizes, cups, technical stuff.
    its a book about food culture, about nice stories, every recipe comes with a nice story aside.
    Leaving in France for the last 2 years I can confirm part of the stories :)
    Totally recommend the book.
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  • Mariana Z.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ótimo livro
    Reviewed in Brazil on March 30, 2015
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    Este livro é ótimo! O David, além do óbvio talento culinário, também escreve muito bem, com humor e muito conhecimento. É um livro grande, com receitas ótimas e fotos lindas, que tem rendido ao autor indicações a prêmios importantes na área. Um único porém: nem todas as receitas vêm acompanhadas de fotos, uma pena.
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  • Stanley Pinto
    4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, within its limitations.
    Reviewed in India on November 20, 2017
    Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
    Wonderful book for true foodies - a wealth of information on the basics of being a chef of French food - though not too many of the recipes are practical to us in India.
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