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Book The French Passion

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  • Author : Jacqueline Briskin
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-04-21
  • ISBN : 1453293671
  • Pages : 357 pages

Download or read book The French Passion written by Jacqueline Briskin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing under the nom de plume Diane du Pont, New York Times–bestselling author Jacqueline Briskin brings to life the fury and intrigue of the French Revolution in a spellbinding, sensual novel of passion, betrayal, and love Manon d’Epinay is on her way to Paris to wed one of the most powerful nobles in France, an adviser to King Louis. But en route, her coach is attacked by marauding revolutionaries. To save her family, Manon strikes a devil’s bargain with a seductive highwayman that will seal her fate. For revolution is about to tear France apart—and transform her life forever. The French Passion is the vibrant story of three ardent people at a momentous turning point in history: Manon, a daring, impoverished aristocrat caught between two charismatic men, who does what she must to survive; Andre, whose past is cloaked in mystery and who risks his life to protect the woman he loves as he fights to bring justice and equality to his countrymen; and the Comte de Crequi, bound by the age-old laws of nobility and class, whose passions for his country and for Manon run deeper than anyone could have imagined.

Book The French Passion

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  • Author : Diane Du Pont
  • Publisher : Fawcett
  • Release : 1977-09
  • ISBN : 9780449138885
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book The French Passion written by Diane Du Pont and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1977-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The French Passion

Download or read book The French Passion written by Diane Du Pont and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The French passion   a troubadour spectacular

Download or read book The French passion a troubadour spectacular written by Jacqueline Briskin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of French Passions 1848 1945

Download or read book A History of French Passions 1848 1945 written by Theodore Zeldin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No QB copy

Book Love Parisienne

Download or read book Love Parisienne written by Florence Besson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the world's most romantic city comes this enchanting guide to passion and love. Three chic Parisian women share their secrets for every stage of romance, from fleeting flirtations to the beginning of a relationship to partnerships that last a lifetime. Featuring tips on what to wear on a first date, where to go for a spontaneous romantic getaway, how to keep things hot between the sheets, and so much more, these pages give readers the tools to handle every amorous situation with allure and grace. Full of fashionable illustrations and bite-size advice delivered in a delightful tone, Love Parisienne is the super-chic guide to living and loving like a fabulous French woman.

Book Raji Cuisine

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  • Author : Raji Jallepalli
  • Publisher : William Morrow Cookbooks
  • Release : 2000-02-02
  • ISBN : 9780060192228
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Raji Cuisine written by Raji Jallepalli and published by William Morrow Cookbooks. This book was released on 2000-02-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Raji Jallepalli was a child growing up in India, she loved to sneak into the kitchen to carefully observe the cook and ask questions about whatever happened to be on the stove. Her parents discouraged such behavior--since Indian ladies did not cook. With a career in the kitchen unthinkable, Raji immersed herself in a career in microbiology. Years later, she visited France and fell in love with French food and wine. On first tasting the food she thought, "This is nice, but it could use some of the assertive flavors of my homeland as well as some lightening up." Three important influences--her Indian upbringing, scientific background, and love of French cuisine--inform Raji's cooking and account for her incredible success as a chef, and a self-taught one at that. Her eponymous restaurant, Restaurant Raji in Memphis, Tennessee, was nominated for a James Beard Award in 1996 and 1997 and helped establish Raji as one of this country's hottest culinary stars. She has been called "a major player" by the New York Times, and her restaurant was dubbed "one of the most exciting in America" by Food & Wine. Raji defines her brand of fusion as "a rather quiet combining of vastly different cultures, philosophies, and cooking techniques." In her kitchen she retains the basic principles and balance of French cuisine while introducing the profound bouquets of Indian cooking. As star chef and Raji fan Charlie Trotter writes in the foreword, "Hers becomes one cuisine--not a melding of two. It is completely natural, there is nothing contrived about it." All the recipes in Raji Cuisine come from Raji's restaurant but are adapted for the home kitchen. A full glossary of Indian spices appears, along with a primer on techniques and notes on choosing wine to accompany Raji's uniquely flavored fare. Outstanding, easy-to-follow recipes, gorgeous four-color photographs, and Raj'i's own reflections on her incredible journey to stardom in America's foremost culinary circles--all combine to make Raji Cuisine a welcome and remarkable debut from an extraordinary talent.

Book A Passion for Paris

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  • Author : David Downie
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2015-04-28
  • ISBN : 1466841257
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book A Passion for Paris written by David Downie and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A top-notch walking tour of Paris. . . . The author's encyclopedic knowledge of the city and its artists grants him a mystical gift of access: doors left ajar and carriage gates left open foster his search for the city's magical story. Anyone who loves Paris will adore this joyful book. Readers visiting the city are advised to take it with them to discover countless new experiences." —Kirkus Reviews (starred) A unique combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, this is author David Downie's irreverent quest to uncover why Paris is the world's most romantic city—and has been for over 150 years. Abounding in secluded, atmospheric parks, artists' studios, cafes, restaurants and streets little changed since the 1800s, Paris exudes romance. The art and architecture, the cityscape, riverbanks, and the unparalleled quality of daily life are part of the equation. But the city's allure derives equally from hidden sources: querulous inhabitants, a bizarre culture of heroic negativity, and a rich historical past supplying enigmas, pleasures and challenges. Rarely do visitors suspect the glamor and chic and the carefree atmosphere of the City of Light grew from and still feed off the dark fountainheads of riot, rebellion, mayhem and melancholy—and the subversive literature, art and music of the Romantic Age. Weaving together his own with the lives and loves of Victor Hugo, Georges Sand, Charles Baudelaire, Balzac, Nadar and other great Romantics Downie delights in the city's secular romantic pilgrimage sites asking , Why Paris, not Venice or Rome—the tap root of "romance"—or Berlin, Vienna and London—where the earliest Romantics built castles-in-the-air and sang odes to nightingales? Read A Passion for Paris: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light and find out.

Book French Gastronomy

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  • Author : Jean-Robert Pitte
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2002-03-27
  • ISBN : 0231518463
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book French Gastronomy written by Jean-Robert Pitte and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This we can be sure of: when a restaurant in the western world is famous for its cooking, it is the tricolor flag that hangs above the stove, opined one French magazine, and this is by no means an isolated example of such crowing. Indeed, both linguistically and conceptually, the restaurant itself is a French creation. Why are the French recognized by themselves and others the world over as the most enlightened of eaters, as the great gourmets? Why did the passion for food—gastronomy—originate in France? In French Gastronomy, geographer and food lover Jean-Robert Pitte uncovers a novel answer. The key, it turns out, is France herself. In her climate, diversity of soils, abundant resources, and varied topography lie the roots of France's food fame. Pitte masterfully reveals the ways in which cultural phenomena surrounding food and eating in France relate to space and place. He points out that France has some six hundred regions, or microclimates, that allow different agricultures, to flourish, and fully navigable river systems leading from peripheral farmlands directly to markets in the great gastronomic centers of Paris and Lyon. With an eye to this landscape, Pitte wonders: Would the great French burgundies enjoy such prestige if the coast they came from were not situated close to the ancient capital for the dukes and a major travel route for medieval Europe? Yet for all the shaping influence of earth and climate, Pitte demonstrates that haute cuisine, like so much that is great about France, can be traced back to the court of Louis XIV. It was the Sun King's regal gourmandise—he enacted a nightly theater of eating, dining alone but in full view of the court—that made food and fine dining a central affair of state. The Catholic Church figures prominently as well: gluttony was regarded as a "benign sin" in France, and eating well was associated with praising God, fraternal conviviality, and a respect for the body. These cultural ingredients, in combination with the bounties of the land, contributed to the full flowering of French foodways. This is a time of paradox for French gourmandism. Never has there been so much literature published on the subject of culinary creativity, never has there been so much talk about good food, and never has so little cooking been done at home. Each day new fast-food places open. Will French cuisine lose its charm and its soul? Will discourse become a substitute for reality? French Gastronomy is a delightful celebration of what makes France unique, and a call to everyone who loves French food to rediscover its full flavor.

Book Passion for Wine

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  • Author : Jean-Charles Boisset
  • Publisher : Favorite Recipes Press/ Boisset Collection
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9780871976468
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Passion for Wine written by Jean-Charles Boisset and published by Favorite Recipes Press/ Boisset Collection. This book was released on 2018 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cashmere

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  • Author : Monique Levi-Strauss
  • Publisher : Thames and Hudson
  • Release : 2013-11-12
  • ISBN : 9780500517123
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Cashmere written by Monique Levi-Strauss and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and expanded edition of Monique Lévi-Strauss's classic 1987 book on French cashmere shawls with superb photographs and a wealth of archive material The delicate beauty of the cashmere shawl was first brought to Europe by the East India Companies and Napoleon's campaigns. Woven in Kashmir, its fabric was so light that, according to legend, a whole shawl could be passed through a finger ring. Exquisite and expensive, by the nineteenth century these shawls were highly sought-after in France; enterprising French manufacturers soon saw that there was a market for more accessibly priced versions and started to create their own. Here is the story of French cashmere shawls of the nineteenth century. At first, the shawl-makers strove to imitate the traditional hand-made designs using modern techniques of mass production, but then they began to explore and innovate. As weaving technology evolved, motifs grew increasingly complex, expanding from the decorative borders and extending across the whole surface of the shawl and filling it with jewel-like colors.

Book Passion Perfect

Download or read book Passion Perfect written by Annie Ernaux and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Introduction  Old French passion  u a

Download or read book Introduction Old French passion u a written by Frances A. Foster and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Passion for Bread

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  • Author : Lionel Vatinet
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 0316255734
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book A Passion for Bread written by Lionel Vatinet and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming and practical cookbook, Master Baker Lionel Vatinet shares his knowledge and passion for baking irresistible bread. A Passion for Bread brings a Master Baker's encyclopedic knowledge of bread, passed on from a long line of French artisan bakers, to the American home, with detailed instructions and dozens of step-by-step photographs. It covers everyday loaves like baguettes, ciabatta, and whole grain breads, as well as loaves for special occasions, including Beaujolais Bread, Jalapev±o Cheddar Bread, and Lionel Vatinet's celebrated sourdough boule. A chapter of delectable soup and sandwich recipes will inspire you to create the perfect accompaniments. The book offers a detailed introduction to bread baking, 65 recipes, and 350 full-color photographs.

Book L affichomania

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  • Author : Jeannine J. Falino
  • Publisher : Driehaus Museum
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9780578168029
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book L affichomania written by Jeannine J. Falino and published by Driehaus Museum. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum, February 11, 2017-January 7, 2018.

Book The Aesthetic Body

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  • Author : Erec R. Koch
  • Publisher : Associated University Presse
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780874130102
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book The Aesthetic Body written by Erec R. Koch and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those two developments converge to construct an aesthetic body; that is, in its full etymological sense, a body whose principal functions are the production of sensation and affectivity. This study examines the importance of the body in the determination of sensibility and passion in French culture of the seventeenth century." "The Aesthetic Body will engage readers with interests in literature, philosophy, the history of ideas, the history of science and medicine, cultural history, and political theory of the French early modem period."--Jacket.