The Paris Cafe Cookbook: Rendezvous and Recipes from 50 Best Cafes

by Daniel Young

Book Overview

Author Daniel Young brings home to American cooks the charm, culture, and food of the fifty best Paris cafe's. Unlike the bistro, the cafe' is a place where you can sit for as long as you like with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688153305
• ISBN13: 9780688153304
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

GET READY TO PACK UP TO PARIS

Wonderful book that not only inspires you to cook up some authentic french food but has you wanting to get there anyway you can. Daniel Young does a great job in giving you personal descriptions of 'authentic' bistros and enamors you with his food travels. Add to the fact he's put in a few nice black and white photos of the bistros and your well on your way to 'gettin down'n'french' in your own kitchen Check out the lemon tarte with prune preserve..i can't wait to try it. Thanks Daniel you gave us a handsome book by which to dream and cook by.

Excellent Recipes

The recipes from the book are truly delightful. I've made several of them over the past two years. This book is well-written and does justice to a cook outside France, by providing reasonable substitutions. Once while in Paris, I decided to compare the recipe results against the actual dishes at the cafes in the book. Surprisingly, the food tasted and looked very similar. The desserts are especially delicious - Mousse au Chocolat, Profiteroles au Chocolat, Peach Cake with Strawberry Sauce, Creme Brulee, Pear Clafoutis ... ummm!

I live in Paris, and have never had bad meal with this book

I live in Paris and know hundreds of restaurants, but Dan Young's wonderful book has led me to wonderful places I never would have found, or have passed by dozens of times without a thought of going inside. I've never had a bad meal with Mr. Young's book, and every new choice is an adventure. As he says in his introdion: finding a greate expensive restaurant is easy, but finding value and wonderful food is a real art. Eat well!

If you buy this book, you'll always have Paris!

As a reader of Daniel Young's New York Daily News restaurant reviews, one of the things that has always impressed me is the drama he is able to convey: of great food presented flawlessly, of heightened expectations and dashed hopes, and the 8 million (or so) stories that are unfolding in that Naked City.The happy news is that Young's singular touch, as unique as Lubitsch's, has survived the Atlantic crossing and is flourishing in Paris. The Ernst Lubitsch reference is not used lightly. Each restaurant, each review, each meal, each recipe has its own scenario and is paced like a good movie. And the recipes are so good, your script will be guaranteed a happy ending.The Paris Cafe Cookbook is book of meals to be made with love and shared with those you love and about a city that Daniel Young loves dearly. This wonderfully written, beautifully photographed and illustrated hommage to the City of Lights is must for all who love Paris, and, by extension, all who love life.