num_pages: 282
description: Like so many others David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases he arrived hopes high at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discovered it's a different world en France.From learning the ironclad rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men's footwear from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the etiquette of working the right way around the cheese plate here is David's story of how he came to fall in love withand even understandthis glorious yet sometimes maddening city.When did he realize he had morphed into un vrai parisien? It might have been when he found himself considering a purchase of men's dress socks with cartoon characters on them.
language: English
title: The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
publisher: Broadway Books