Author: France Dubin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Jacqueline, an American divorcée, is going to Paris for the first time in her life. In this magical city, she will discover many surprises, including about herself. With this fun novel, written in easy French, we visit the city of lights with Jacqueline. It's a fantastic way to learn new vocabulary and to travel to Paris! Reading a book in French can be difficult, even for advanced learners. French novels are usually full of idiomatic expressions. They use complicated tenses, complex sentence structures, and often slang. This book, written in easy French, is recommended for French learners with a basic understanding of French at a pre-intermediate level and above. The book is divided into two sections: Section 1 has the story written completely in French and includes vocabulary and grammar exercises. Section 2 contains the complete translation in English and answers to all the exercises so that readers can check their comprehension.
Author: Farha Bano Ternikar
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442229438
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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When Americans think of brunch, they typically think of Sunday mornings swelling into early afternoons; mimosas and bloody Marys; eggs Benedict and coffee cake; bacon and bagels; family and friends. This book presents a modern history of brunch not only as a meal, but also as a cultural experience. Relying on diverse sources, from historic cookbooks to Twitter and television, Brunch: A History is a global and social history of the meal including brunch in the United States, Western Europe, South Asia and the Middle-East. Brunch takes us on a tour of a modern meal around the world. While brunch has become a modern meal of leisure, its history is far from restful; this meal’s past is both lively and fraught with tension. Here, Farha Ternikar explores the gendered and class-based conflicts around this meal, and provides readers with an enlightening glimpse into the dining rooms, verandas, and kitchens where brunches were prepared, served, and enjoyed.
Author: France Dubin
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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John and Becky, two American grandparents from Texas, are visiting their son Joshua, who lives in France with Caroline, his French wife, and their son Guillaume. After a few fun days in a typical small French village with their son's family, Becky and John are ready to do some sightseeing. They can't wait to visit antique shops, a few old castles and a lot of wineries. Unfortunately, their son has another plan for his parents... The book, written in easy French, has two sections, allowing more levels of French students to enjoy it. Section 1 has the story written completely in French, and includes exercises at the end of each chapter. Section 2 contains a full English translation so students can check their comprehension.
Author: Valerie Nye
Publisher: Sunstone Press
ISBN: 0865347166
Category : Breakfasts
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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"Breakfast New Mexico Style" is a dining guide to more than 100 librarian-endorsed restaurants from Carlsbad to Aztec and Tucumcari to Silver City. Included are recommended reading and after-breakfast activity suggestions.
Author: Richard H Rogers
Publisher: Richard H Rogers
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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This book is divided into three parts: Brittany, Paris, and the South of France. A separate section is devoted to some delicious recipes because how can you talk or write about France without fully appreciating its food? The book is partly auto biographical, based on my years growing up in Paris and those wonderful summers at our Brittany home. They are collections of experiences and stories as an adult looking back on those years in France. There are also stories based in part on my research, knowledge, and richness of one particular region or another, as well as the overlay of family history and anecdotes that I recalled hearing from my parents as a child. It is undeniably a wonderful and sentimental journey in France. If you ae a “foodie” at heart, you’ll love some of my stories. Join me in a wonderful six-part “foodie” trip along France’s Atlantic Coast, where we start with a visit to the Opal Coast and the well-known resort of Le Touquet, where my father spent his youthful summers in the late 1920s. Then join me for a most unforgettable dinner in Dinard, a popular holiday destination on my beautiful and deeply familiar Côte d' Émeraude in Brittany. Finally, we will end up in the quite unique and picturesque seaport town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, nestled in the Basque country. The six-part trip is filled with delicious and memorable local dishes. The food alone will have you packing your bags and leaving for France. Trust me! Part one includes several stories about Brittany, many of which will surely appeal to “foodies.” Brittany has played a major part in my life, both as a child when we bought the house, I was seven years old. Rough floors, a malfunctioning fireplace, dampness abounded, a small gas-powered stove, no refrigerator and an outhouse. We would go to bed with multiple blankets and a hot water bottle to ward off the incredibly damp sheets. Those days at the house in the country provided me with rich content for many of my stories. Importantly, in my stories, I have tried to convey what our Brittany was like as we lived in the French countryside that had not significantly changed since the 1940’s. Part two, I recount my childhood having grown up in Paris, the leafy suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine a stone’s throw from the city limits and the 16e arrondissement where we attended school. We lived in a newly built, spacious apartment. We had all the room to make trouble. Paris in the late 1950’s and early 1960s had the Algerian conflict as a backdrop and the OAS planted bombs in theaters and cafes. The trials and tribulations of a young American, particularly my challenges in surviving the French school system. I never got really “got it” despite their best efforts to drive it home, whatever the cost or the pain. I was more than glad to leave school and I retained, for many years, a deep sense of discomfort well into my adult life. Many years later, I happened to have a most incredible dinner at the Café Bergamote, a cozy little resto’ nestled on the Left Bank at 8, rue Montfaucon in the 6th arrondissement. Join me for dinner, please. In part three, I take a slow, leisurely journey towards the coast eventually reaching the Mediterranean. I recount a most memorable dinner in a little restaurant tucked away in the 12th Century fortified village of Rivesaltes in the Languedoc Roussillon region, truly spectacular and wonderfully enjoyable is all I can say and all with a charming host and hostess. Moving generally southward, join me at a table “Chez M'man” a tasty Bouchon Lyonnais, if ever there was one, and located very near the charming Place Bellecour on the rue des Maronniers. Typical foods on the menu include andouille (grilled chitterlings sausage), tripe (pig or cow’s stomach), or boudin noir (blood sausage). Other more recognizable dishes include chicken liver salad, Cerverlas (raw pork sausages), and Quenelles (flour, egg, and cream dumplings.) May I suggest one or two wonderful Beaujolais for your dining pleasure?
Author: Richard Grindal
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471918297
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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When journalist Ronnie Bart visits a Rome clinic, where one of his colleagues lies drugged, he becomes involved in a series of adventures in which fear and death are never far away. In a Copenhagen nightclub, Bart meets a young millionaire, Paul Arved, and goes with him and his 'flying circus' of girls and hangers-on in a private jet to the South of France. They then proceed to Sicily, where the story reaches a dramatic, violent finale.
Author: Jane Pearce
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1491877987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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This book is the true story of my quest to live as a free spirit for a year of my life, mentally, physically and sexually. The year is 1975, I was 24 and I had abandoned a marriage and walked away from a secure job as a BBC make-up artist. Where in the modern world would I find the wide open horizons that I sought? How would I live? Would I share the adventure? The ocean, a boat and an open relationship provided my answers. Travelling with no fixed itinerary, no advance reservations, no return ticket and no fixed destination. We became true free spirits open to the dictionary's definition of adventure: 'one who lives on his wits. Risk. A remarkable happening.' My mood was at odds with the rest of the country. After the previous year's three day week, strikes and Harold Wilson's minority government, Britain was bracing itself for Denis Healey's tough new budget. I was about to sail away from all this, but what lay ahead could be much worse and certainly carried more risk. Restless, excited, optimistic and definitely naive I did it anyway. There is a phrase, "be careful what you wish for as it might come true"
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Author: France Dubin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781795292733
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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This book, the first in a series, should be the first novel you read in French! Reading a book in French can be difficult, even for advanced students. French novels are usually full of idiomatic expressions. They use complicated tenses, complex sentence structures, and often slang. This book is in simple French. It's about the joys and the frustrations of an adult learning French. It includes a good dose of humor, a few exercises, and illustrations. Note: this book contains adult language. A school edition of the book without adult language entitled Oh Là Là, It's Not Easy Learning French is also available on Amazon. The book has two sections, allowing more levels of French students to enjoy it. Section 1 has the story written completely in French, and includes grammar exercises. Section 2 contains a list of the more difficult vocabulary translated into English and the complete text in English so students can check their comprehension.
Author: Bernice Livingston Youtz
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493177923
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 541
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Oh! the Places I've Been is a memoir Bernice Livingston Youtz has written primarily for her family and a few friends. She relates childhood in the Depression of the 1930s (she always knew that it was spelled with a capital D), adolescence during World War II, young adulthood, marriage, children in the post-war 1950s. She recalls an early love of reading which led, not surprisingly, to an aspiration for travel, although there was no opportunity for that until she was an adult, no "study abroad" programs or summers hosteling in Europe. She made up for that in work and travel in post-war Europe, and--after her marriage--she and her husband lived in Beirut, Lebanon, for three years. She writes of the great pleasure she took in raising her three children and in the travel she has been privileged to enjoy in recent years. She is grateful for the privilege of having lived in Lebanon and on two occasions in France, has traveled in some sixty countries. She still reads, thinks often of the many people she has known throughout the world.
