--- product_id: 4115617 title: "Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes" price: "111.51 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/4115617-lunch-in-paris-a-love-story-with-recipes store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes **Price:** 111.51 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes - **How much does it cost?** 111.51 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/4115617-lunch-in-paris-a-love-story-with-recipes) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman -- and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? Lunch in Paris is a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs -- one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Packing her bags for a new life in the world's most romantic city, Elizabeth is plunged into a world of bustling open-air markets, hipster bistros, and size 2 femmes fatales. She learns to gut her first fish (with a little help from Jane Austen), soothe pangs of homesickness (with the rise of a chocolate soufflé), and develops a crush on her local butcher (who bears a striking resemblance to Matt Dillon). Elizabeth finds that the deeper she immerses herself in the world of French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate. French culture, she discovers, is not unlike a well-ripened cheese -- there may be a crusty exterior, until you cut through to the melting, piquant heart. Peppered with mouth-watering recipes for summer ratatouille, swordfish tartare and molten chocolate cakes, Lunch in Paris is a story of falling in love, redefining success and discovering what it truly means to be at home. In the delicious tradition of memoirs like A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun , this book is the perfect treat for anyone who has dreamed that lunch in Paris could change their life. Review: Well balanced Memoir of Love and Life with Recipes - Elizabeth Bard went to Paris and fell in love with a Frenchman and with Paris. This book is her memoir of the early days of their romance, their marriage, and their life in Paris. She does a wonderful job of keeping the story light and enjoyable even as she deals with the more difficult issues that she faced as an American choosing to live in a different country with a different language and a significantly different culture. Living in Paris is obviously much different than just visiting, but living in Paris with a French husband is also much different than living in Paris with an American husband as expats. On top of everything else, she is also a young woman trying to figure out what to do professionally. It is a very personal story that also provides insight into finding friends in a new city. It is never easy to build a new circle of friends from scratch. The undertaking is even trickier with language and cultural issues. There is no whining as our author embraces her choices and works to make them successful. The book is full of recipes which is terrific since so much of her French life is around the table. I enjoyed revisiting so many familiar places in Paris and in Brittany. Her writing makes you feel as if you are walking at her side in the market, at Galeries Lafayette, or Dehillerin or sitting at her table. This book ends with another big transition as they move to a small town in Provence. We will be heading to that area in a few months so I am sure that I will enjoy her next book with a personal interest again. I bought the book on a Kindle deal, and it was more than worth the purchase price. Review: She talks about learning the French attitude of doing what makes you happy versus doing what will earn the most money (as ... - Lunch in Paris is a real story. Sure, you have the normal Paris-colored glasses on while reading, but it's not all pastries and walks along the Seine. It's that and real life. Elizabeth met Gwendal while she was living in London (she's from New York). They did the long-distance thing for a while (weekends in Paris? Yes please!) and after two years she took the plunge to move into his cozy Parisian apartment with him. She shares her struggles with learning French, moving to a foreign country, making new friends, and figuring out what she wants to do job wise. She talks about learning the French attitude of doing what makes you happy versus doing what will earn the most money (as we tend to do in the US), and teaches her husband the anything-is-possible attitude many Americans have. It made sense to me that most of the people in their social circle or those they met didn't automatically start talking about what they did for a living; really, who wants to do that? I'm going to find a way to tell new people I meet about my passion for books, my blog, starting a ladies comic book club, and my cats before I talk about where I am stuck from 8-5 each weekday. Then, there's the food. Elizabeth does a beautiful job taking us on a walk through the market with her and explaining her troubles in trying to recreate her favorites from home with what is available in Paris. Several recipes are included that were part of stories in the same chapter. She also emphasizes what little quantities the french eat; they deny themselves nothing by eating very small portions. I'm working on this! Though it would help if the quality of food were as good as it is over there... I have already started reading her next book, Picnic in Provence. I recommend them both! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #490,872 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #124 in French Cooking, Food & Wine #801 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies #4,908 in Memoirs (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 839 Reviews | ## Images ![Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Gqjku3iKL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well balanced Memoir of Love and Life with Recipes *by C***R on January 21, 2018* Elizabeth Bard went to Paris and fell in love with a Frenchman and with Paris. This book is her memoir of the early days of their romance, their marriage, and their life in Paris. She does a wonderful job of keeping the story light and enjoyable even as she deals with the more difficult issues that she faced as an American choosing to live in a different country with a different language and a significantly different culture. Living in Paris is obviously much different than just visiting, but living in Paris with a French husband is also much different than living in Paris with an American husband as expats. On top of everything else, she is also a young woman trying to figure out what to do professionally. It is a very personal story that also provides insight into finding friends in a new city. It is never easy to build a new circle of friends from scratch. The undertaking is even trickier with language and cultural issues. There is no whining as our author embraces her choices and works to make them successful. The book is full of recipes which is terrific since so much of her French life is around the table. I enjoyed revisiting so many familiar places in Paris and in Brittany. Her writing makes you feel as if you are walking at her side in the market, at Galeries Lafayette, or Dehillerin or sitting at her table. This book ends with another big transition as they move to a small town in Provence. We will be heading to that area in a few months so I am sure that I will enjoy her next book with a personal interest again. I bought the book on a Kindle deal, and it was more than worth the purchase price. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ She talks about learning the French attitude of doing what makes you happy versus doing what will earn the most money (as ... *by J***S on April 12, 2016* Lunch in Paris is a real story. Sure, you have the normal Paris-colored glasses on while reading, but it's not all pastries and walks along the Seine. It's that and real life. Elizabeth met Gwendal while she was living in London (she's from New York). They did the long-distance thing for a while (weekends in Paris? Yes please!) and after two years she took the plunge to move into his cozy Parisian apartment with him. She shares her struggles with learning French, moving to a foreign country, making new friends, and figuring out what she wants to do job wise. She talks about learning the French attitude of doing what makes you happy versus doing what will earn the most money (as we tend to do in the US), and teaches her husband the anything-is-possible attitude many Americans have. It made sense to me that most of the people in their social circle or those they met didn't automatically start talking about what they did for a living; really, who wants to do that? I'm going to find a way to tell new people I meet about my passion for books, my blog, starting a ladies comic book club, and my cats before I talk about where I am stuck from 8-5 each weekday. Then, there's the food. Elizabeth does a beautiful job taking us on a walk through the market with her and explaining her troubles in trying to recreate her favorites from home with what is available in Paris. Several recipes are included that were part of stories in the same chapter. She also emphasizes what little quantities the french eat; they deny themselves nothing by eating very small portions. I'm working on this! Though it would help if the quality of food were as good as it is over there... I have already started reading her next book, Picnic in Provence. I recommend them both! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent! *by A***L on February 25, 2011* So it's the middle of February in Pennsylvania and all I see around me is snow. It's around this time of year- (when the days are slightly longer than they were in December but the cold and gray skies force you to crawl back into hibernation until the real Spring emerges) that I start getting Under the Tuscan Sun syndrome. You know, where you just want to pick up and run away to a far away land .............at least until the sun creeps out again. Then I picked up Lunch in Paris. I have long been entranced by France; its culture , history, and language. Like most of middle class America, I have never traveled to Europe due to cost, but its definitely on my bucket list. I am in love with the idea of France. It has long been the "happy place" where I go to when I get too stressed out. The Paris of my mind is where I fill my days comfortably reading at a café while sipping cafe au lait, shopping at the local market to make meals that American foodies would die for, and admiring the architecture and history of a beautiful city. In my head, I can speak perfect French; an eloquent, sensual language and I am ultimately relaxed with the world around me. This book definitely quenched my thirst for all things French. Although the author led somewhat of a charmed life, she is still relatable and allows you to be in her moment. The book covers her and her French husband's courtship, years together in Paris, and the process of growth as the author finds out how this new culture fits into her life and how it shapes her into who she is and what she wants to become. What I liked best about the book was a it was an insider account at the differences between American and French society and completely unbiased. By simple reflection the author was able to pose such interesting questions such as what could we as Americans do that the European's do to improve our lives and the way we view each other? Was the author doing the right thing living a relaxed life knowing that she was brought up on the American way of judging self worth based on academic and professional successes? Now, let's get to the food. If I can't be in France, food is one way to bring France to me. Of course food is important to the French and the author's important moments are punctuated by great cooking and family gatherings. As she learned French cooking, she learned more and more about herself and those around her. The author was ingenious by adding the recipes after each chapter. If not just to help you understand her journey better but to get you to keep the book for the recipes! I highly recommend this book, if only just to see life through someone else's eyes for a moment.I am definitely inspired to be a part of the author's Paris, if only via my stove. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/4115617-lunch-in-paris-a-love-story-with-recipes](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/4115617-lunch-in-paris-a-love-story-with-recipes) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-08-01*