Whether it be a weeknight supper or a long Sunday lunch, they take joy in eating and spending time together, and they understand that preparation is the path to getting there.
Susan Herrmann Loomis is a France-based, award-winning journalist, an author and cooking school proprietor with nine books to her credit, and a professionally trained chef. Among her books are On Rue Tatin, a narrative about her life in France, with recipes, which won the IACP Award for Best Literary Food Writing for 2002. Loomis contributes to many publications, including Cooking Light, Metropolitan Home, France Today, and Gastronomica. She has lived in France for nearly twenty years and operates On Rue Tatin, a cultural and culinary cooking program, from her fifteenth-century home in Louviers, France, where she lives with her two children.
“In a French Kitchen is an enticing mix of recipes, stories, and
astuces (tips) Susan shares from her sun-filled kitchen in France.
Few people understand French cuisine as deeply as Susan, and if you
want to experience honest, French cooking - without a lot of fuss,
but with great results - you'll as happy as I am to have In a
French Kitchen as a companion in your kitchen.”
—David Lebovitz, author of My Paris Kitchen and The Sweet Life in
Paris
“With a clear, distinctive, emphatic, and personal style, Susan
captures the essence of the French home cook: the search for the
finest ingredients, one’s personal connections to purveyors,
superior organization, the creation of a comfortable repertoire of
dishes, the joy as well as the triumph of putting a meal on the
table.”
—Patricia Wells, author of 365 Days in France and founder of At
Home with Patricia Wells
“From her long experience cooking and eating with her French
friends and compatriots, Susan has extracted the essence of what
makes French home cooking so special. In this book she distills
those lessons with warmth, clarity, and lovely recipes, so your
kitchen can be French too!”
—Clotilde Dusoulier, author of The French Market Cookbook and
Edible French
“This is the best trip to France you'll ever have -- walking
through Louviers with Susan Loomis as your appreciative,
ever-hungry guide. You'll stop in kitchen after kitchen to meet her
friends and taste their glorious home cooking, you'll get a
supermarket tour with special attention to the candy aisle, you'll
find out why she's still dazzled by the French art of using up
leftovers, and why you'll never see her in public sopping up sauce
with a piece of bread. And when it's over, you'll head home with a
string bag full of Susan's incomparable recipes.”
—Laura Shapiro, author of Something from the Oven
“Susan Herrmann Loomis’s In A French Kitchen makes me want to move
right back to France, where people expect to eat well, love to eat
well, and know how to do it. Susan has always been one of my
favorite food writers; sharing her wisdom comes naturally to her,
and I love being drawn into her life. This book will inspire us to
adapt at least a little bit of the lifestyle she describes with
such heartfelt eloquence. You will want to make every recipe in the
book, and you’ll be able to do so with little effort, just like
Susan and her French friends.”
—Martha Rose Shulman, author of The Simple Art of Vegetarian
Cooking
"In this charming memoir cum superb cookbook, Susan Hermann
Loomis gets right to the heart of how the French really cook with
recipes, tips and techniques of her own and from the friends she's
made during twenty years of living in France. Deliciously honest,
it's as delightful to read as it is to cook from."
—Alexander Lobrano, author of Hungry for Paris and Hungry for
France
“There is wisdom in this book, expressed in stories and anecdotes,
in advice, opinions, recipes, and shopping lists, and most of all
in Susan Loomis’s warmly engaging yet always sternly authoritative
writing. In a French Kitchen is a crash course in cooking and
living well.”
– Luke Barr, author of Provence
"With practical tips, delicious recipes, and real stories from real
people, In a French Kitchen is a wonderful guide for producing
honest, simple, and chic meals, à la française. Susan Herrmann
Loomis has revolutionized the way I cook for my family!"
—Ann Mah, author of Mastering the Art of French Eating
“A warm invitation to the French table... a tempting and helpful
guide to delectable food.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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