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  • L'Appart

  • The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
  • By: David Lebovitz
  • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
  • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)
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L'Appart

By: David Lebovitz
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
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Summary

Best-selling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving expat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes. 

When David Lebovitz began the project of updating his apartment in his adopted home city, he never imagined he would encounter so much inexplicable red tape while contending with perplexing work ethic and hours. Lebovitz maintains his distinctive sense of humor with the help of his partner, Romain, peppering this renovation story with recipes from his Paris kitchen. In the midst of it all, he reveals the adventure that accompanies carving out a place for yourself in a foreign country - under baffling conditions - while never losing sight of the magic that inspired him to move to the City of Light many years ago and to truly make his home there. 

©2017 David Lebovitz (P)2017 Random House Audio

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"This book is so entertaining and so deliciously told that I could just gobble it all up in one sitting. As always, David Lebovitz managed to draw me into his scrumptious universe with a million poignant observations and countless of laugh-out-loud moments." (Yotam Ottolenghi, author of Jerusalem, Plenty, and Sweet)
"David is an incredible storyteller, both in and out of the kitchen. I thoroughly enjoy the authenticity of life in a different country, where every day requires an adjustment and every event is a curve ball. But that's where the joy is: embracing life with a wonderful attitude, seeking exploration and novelty." (Gabriele Corcos, chef and author of the New York Times best seller Extra Virgin)

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Entertaining at first…

… but for very repetitive and the French accent is excruciating! Ok if you’ve got lots of time to spare I suppose.

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I adored the author’s previous books. He’s terrific on food and on being an ex-pat in Paris. Alas this book iliterally involved watching paint dry, not to mention many trips to Ikea and the search for floorboards that are a few millimetres off the standard French dimensions.

Where was his editor during all this I wonder? Sound asleep probably. How else to explain it. A typical paragraph.
“The one thing I wasn’t paying attention to was how far from the sink the crew had attached the faucet. When the water line was attached, the lever to the faucet happened to be in the open position and after a few lurching sputters of water came out, a steady flow suddenly burst forth drenching the counter. The faucet had been set too far back and the spigot barely cleared the side of the basin.”

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