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My Place at the Table

A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris

By: Alexander Lobrano

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My Place at the Table

A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris

By: Alexander Lobrano

In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women's Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani. Over a superb lunch, it's his landlady who ultimately provides him with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: "you must understand the intentions of the cook." At the city's brasseries and bistros, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia Child to Ruth Reichl, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice. Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the Parisian dining revolution and the restaurant critic of one of the largest newspapers in the France. A mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food, My Place at the Table is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood, discovers himself, and finds love. Published here for the first time is Lobrano's "little black book," an insider's guide to his thirty all-time-favorite Paris restaurants.

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Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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1328588831

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9781328588838

Hungry for Paris

The Ultimate Guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants

By: Alexander Lobrano

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Hungry for Paris

The Ultimate Guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants

By: Alexander Lobrano

This new and updated version (published in September 2010) of Hungry for Paris, the most authoritative and charming guide to eating well in the French capital, includes reviews of all of the really fabulous new restaurants you won't want to miss during your next trip to Paris, as well as updated maps and indexes. WHEN IN PARIS. . . . If you’re passionate about eating well during your next trip to Paris, you couldn’t ask for a better travel companion than Alexander Lobrano’s charming, friendly, and authoritative Hungry for Paris, the first new comprehensive guide in many years to the city’s restaurant scene. Lobrano, Gourmet magazine’s European correspondent, has written for almost every major food and travel magazine since he became an American in Paris in 1986. Here he shares his personal selection of the city’s 102 best restaurants, each of which is portrayed in savvy, fun, lively descriptions that are not only indispensable for finding a superb meal but a pleasure to read. Lobrano reveals the hottest young chefs, the coziest bistros, the best buys–including those haute cuisine restaurants that are really worth the money–and the secret places Parisians love most, together with information on the most delicious dishes, ambience, clientele, and history of each restaurant. A series of delightful essays cover various aspects of dining in Paris, including “Table for One” (how to eat alone), “The Four Seasons” (the best of seasonal eating in Paris), and “Eating the Unspeakable” (learning to eat what you don’t think you like). All restaurants are keyed to helpful maps, and the book is seasoned with beautiful photographs by Life magazine photographer Bob Peterson that will only help whet your appetite for tasting Paris. Praise for Hungry for Paris "Every time I go to Paris I call Alec and ask him where to eat. Nobody else has such an intimate knowledge of what is going on in the Paris food world right this minute, and there is nobody I trust more to tell me all the latest news. Happily, Alec has written it all down in this wonderful book and now I can stop bothering him."—Ruth Reichl "Hungry for Paris is a brilliant book with an almost fatal flaw: the writing is so enchanting you may never leave home to go to any of Alec’s favorite places. Few people know,love and appreciate Paris restaurants the way Alec does; no one writes about them better or with more charm."—Dorie Greenspan, author of Baking From My Home to Yours “When I was nineteen, I went to France to study, but instead, I just ate. The experience changed me: I came back to the United States, and a few years later, started Chez Panisse. In Hungry for Paris, Alec Lobrano describes his own gastronomic awakening, probably better than I could! This book is a wonderful guide to eating in Paris.”—Alice Waters “I dearly hope Monsieur Lobrano has an unlisted phone number, for his book will make readers more than merely hungry for the culinary riches of his adopted city; it will make them ravenous for a dining companion with his particular warmth, wry charm, and refreshingly pure joie de vivre. Lobrano is a sly raconteur, a respectful critic, and the very best kind of insider--one who genuinely longs to share all his best discoveries.”—Julia Glass, author of The Whole World Over and Three Junes

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Random House

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158836710X

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Hungry for Paris (second edition)

The Ultimate Guide to the City's 109 Best Restaurants

By: Alexander Lobrano

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Hungry for Paris (second edition)

The Ultimate Guide to the City's 109 Best Restaurants

By: Alexander Lobrano

If you’re passionate about eating well, you couldn’t ask for a better travel companion than Alexander Lobrano’s charming, friendly, and authoritative Hungry for Paris, the fully revised and updated guide to this renowned culinary scene. Having written about Paris for almost every major food and travel magazine since moving there in 1986, Lobrano shares his personal selection of the city’s best restaurants, from bistros featuring the hottest young chefs to the secret spots Parisians love. In lively prose that is not only informative but a pleasure to read, Lobrano reveals the ambience, clientele, history, and most delicious dishes of each establishment—alongside helpful maps and beautiful photographs that will surely whet your appetite for Paris. Praise for Hungry for Paris “Hungry for Paris is required reading and features [Alexander Lobrano’s] favorite 109 restaurants reviewed in a fun and witty way. . . . A native of Boston, Lobrano moved to Paris in 1986 and never looked back. He served as the European correspondent for Gourmet from 1999 until it closed in 2009 (also known as the greatest job ever that will never be a job again). . . . He also updates his website frequently with restaurant reviews, all letter graded.”—Food Republic “Written with . . . flair and . . . acerbity is the new, second edition of Alexander Lobrano’s Hungry for Paris, which includes rigorous reviews of what the author considers to be the city’s 109 best restaurants [and] a helpful list of famous Parisian restaurants to be avoided.”—The Wall Street Journal “A wonderful guide to eating in Paris.”—Alice Waters “Nobody else has such an intimate knowledge of what is going on in the Paris food world right this minute. Happily, Alexander Lobrano has written it all down in this wonderful book.”—Ruth Reichl “Delightful . . . the sort of guide you read before you go to Paris—to get in the mood and pick up a few tips, a little style.”—Los Angeles Times “No one is ‘on the ground’ in Paris more than Alec Lobrano. . . . This book will certainly make you hungry for Paris. But even if you aren’t in Paris, his tales of French dining will seduce you into feeling like you are here, sitting in your favorite bistro or sharing a carafe of wine with a witty friend at a neighborhood hotspot.”—David Lebovitz, author of The Sweet Life in Paris “Hungry for Paris is like a cozy bistro on a chilly day: It makes you feel welcome.”—The Washington Post “This book will make readers more than merely hungry for the culinary riches of Paris; it will make them ravenous for a dining companion with Monsieur Lobrano’s particular warmth, wry charm, and refreshingly pure joie de vivre.”—Julia Glass “[Lobrano is] a wonderful man and writer who might know more about Paris restaurants than any other person I’ve ever met.”—Elissa Altman, author of Poor Man’s Feast

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081298594X

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Hungry for Paris (second edition)

The Ultimate Guide to the City's 109 Best Restaurants

By: Alexander Lobrano

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The Ultimate Guide to the City's 109 Best Restaurants

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Hungry for Paris

The Ultimate Guide to the City's 102 Best Restaurants

By: Alexander Lobrano

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My Place at the Table

A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris

By: Alexander Lobrano

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Salinger

A Biography

By: Paul Alexander

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Salinger

A Biography

By: Paul Alexander

Alexander offers the first full-length popular account of American literature's great recluse in over 30 years, giving new insights into the author of "The Catcher in the Rye".

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Macmillan

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1580631487

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Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics

By: N. Alexander-Floyd

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Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics

By: N. Alexander-Floyd

An examination of the interrelationship between gender, race, narrative, and nationalism in black politics specifically within American politics as a whole. The author not only highlights the critical role of race and gender, she goes further to show how they operate to define political discourse and to determine public policy.

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0230605583

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Re-Imagining Black Women

A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics

By: Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd

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Re-Imagining Black Women

A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics

By: Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd

WINNER OF THE W.E.B. DUBOIS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTS A wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black women From Michelle Obama to Condoleezza Rice, Black women are uniquely scrutinized in the public eye. In Re-Imagining Black Women, Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd explores how Black women—and Blackness more broadly—are understood in our political imagination and often become the subjects of public controversy. Drawing on politics, popular culture, psychoanalysis, and more, Alexander-Floyd examines our conflicting ideas, opinions, and narratives about Black women, showing how they are equally revered and reviled as an embodiment of good and evil, cast either as victims or villains, citizens or outsiders. Ultimately, Alexander-Floyd showcases the complex experiences of Black women as political subjects. At a time of extreme racial tension, Re-Imagining Black Women provides insight into the parts that Black women play, and are expected to play, in politics and popular culture.

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NYU Press

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1479824380

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Frommer's Paris by Night

By: Alexander F. Lobrano,George McDonald

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Frommer's Paris by Night

By: Alexander F. Lobrano,George McDonald

The insider's guide to the best of Paris after dark--bars, cabaret, late-night dining, adult entertainment, and more.

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0028611284

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Paris from $60 a Day 1997

By: Alexander F. Lobrano,George McDonald,Arthur Frommer

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Paris from $60 a Day 1997

By: Alexander F. Lobrano,George McDonald,Arthur Frommer

Prices have soared in the City of Light, and Frommer's comes to the traveler's rescue with this value-packed guide to the best bargains in Paris. This is an insider's take on low-cost but charming places to stay, wonderful meals that won't break the bank, discount shopping, and night life that real people can afford. The sightseeing coverage is rich and complete. Maps.

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0028613317

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Book's by Alexander Lobrano

My Place at the Table

My Place at the Table

Hungry for Paris

Hungry for Paris

Hungry for Paris (second edition)

Hungry for Paris (second edition)

Hungry for Paris (second edition)

Hungry for Paris (second edition)

Hungry for Paris

Hungry for Paris

My Place at the Table

My Place at the Table

Salinger

Salinger

Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics

Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics

Re-Imagining Black Women

Re-Imagining Black Women

Frommer's Paris by Night

Frommer's Paris by Night

Paris from $60 a Day 1997

Paris from $60 a Day 1997

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