In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France

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Whether it be a weeknight supper or a long Sunday lunch, they take joy in eating and spending time together, and they understand that preparation is the path to getting there. In On Rue Tatin, Susan Herrmann Loomis - an expat who long ago traded her American grocery store for a bustling French farmers' market - introduced us to her French life. Now she shares the French kitchen with us, providing everyday tips, secrets, and eighty-six recipes that come straight from French cooks, showing how they turn every meal into a sumptuous occasion and proving that dishes don't have to be complicated to be delicious. French cooks don't rely on expensive gadgets, vast counter space, or fancy cookware. Instead, they make do with their old cracked bowls, dull knives, and small kitchens because, for them, the real treasure is time at the table. Whether it be a weeknight supper or a long Sunday lunch, they take joy in eating and spending time together, and they understand that preparation is the path to getting there.

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In a French Kitchen is an enticing mix of recipes, stories, and astuces (tips) Susan shares from her sun-filled kitchen in France. Few people understand French cuisine as deeply as Susan, and if you want to experience honest, French cooking - without a lot of fuss, but with great results - you'll as happy as I am to have In a French Kitchen as a companion in your kitchen.
David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen and The Sweet Life in Paris

With a clear, distinctive, emphatic, and personal style, Susan captures the essence of the French home cook: the search for the finest ingredients, ones personal connections to purveyors, superior organization, the creation of a comfortable repertoire of dishes, the joy as well as the triumph of putting a meal on the table.
Patricia Wells, author of 365 Days in France and founder of At Home with Patricia Wells

From her long experience cooking and eating with her French friends and compatriots, Susan has extracted the essence of what makes French home cooking so special. In this book she distills those lessons with warmth, clarity, and lovely recipes, so your kitchen can be French too!
Clotilde Dusoulier, author of The French Market Cookbook and Edible French

This is the best trip to France you'll ever have -- walking through Louviers with Susan Loomis as your appreciative, ever-hungry guide. You'll stop in kitchen after kitchen to meet her friends and taste their glorious home cooking, you'll get a supermarket tour with special attention to the candy aisle, you'll find out why she's still dazzled by the French art of using up leftovers, and why you'll never see her in public sopping up sauce with a piece of bread. And when it's over, you'll head home with a string bag full of Susan's incomparable recipes.
Laura Shapiro, author of Something from the Oven


Susan Herrmann Loomiss In A French Kitchen makes me want to move right back to France, where people expect to eat well, love to eat well, and know how to do it. Susan has always been one of my favorite food writers; sharing her wisdom comes naturally to her, and I love being drawn into her life. This book will inspire us to adapt at least a little bit of the lifestyle she describes with such heartfelt eloquence. You will want to make every recipe in the book, and youll be able to do so with little effort, just like Susan and her French friends.
Martha Rose Shulman, author of The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking

"In this charming memoir cum superb cookbook, Susan Hermann Loomis gets right to the heart of how the French really cook with recipes, tips and techniques of her own and from the friends she's made during twenty years of living in France. Deliciously honest, it's as delightful to read as it is to cook from."
Alexander Lobrano, author of Hungry for Paris and Hungry for France

There is wisdom in this book, expressed in stories and anecdotes, in advice, opinions, recipes, and shopping lists, and most of all in Susan Loomiss warmly engaging yet always sternly authoritative writing. In a French Kitchen is a crash course in cooking and living well.
Luke Barr, author of Provence

"With practical tips, delicious recipes, and real stories from real people, In a French Kitchen is a wonderful guide for producing honest, simple, and chic meals, la franaise. Susan Herrmann Loomis has revolutionized the way I cook for my family!"
Ann Mah, author of Mastering the Art of French Eating

A warm invitation to the French table... a tempting and helpful guide to delectable food.
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Author Bio

Susan Herrmann Loomis is a France-based, award-winning journalist, an author and cooking school proprietor with nine books to her credit, and a professionally trained chef. Among her books are On Rue Tatin, a narrative about her life in France, with recipes, which won the IACP Award for Best Literary Food Writing for 2002. Loomis contributes to many publications, including Cooking Light, Metropolitan Home, France Today, and Gastronomica. She has lived in France for nearly twenty years and operates On Rue Tatin, a cultural and culinary cooking program, from her fifteenth-century home in Louviers, France, where she lives with her two children.