The Paris Cookbook
by Patricia Wells
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The regard with which the Royal Family are held in the 21st century has changed out of all recognition in comparison to the early and middle part of the 20th. Their private lives are now the stuff of soap opera and it seems anyone who comes into contact with them sells their story to the magazines or to the newspapers. Marion Crawford, Crawfie, as she was known to the Queen and Princess Margaret, became governess to the children of the Duke and Duchess of York in the early 1930s, little show more suspecting she was nurturing her future Queen. Beginning at the quiet family home in Piccadilly in the early 1930s and ending with the birth of Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace in 1948, Crawfie tells how she brought the princesses up to be Royal whilst also exposing them to the ordinary world of underground trains, buses and swimming lessons. The Little Princesses was published in 1950 to a furore we cannot imagine today. Crawfie was demonized by the press and the Queen Mother, who had been a great friend and who had, Crawfie maintained, given her permission to write the account, never spoke to her again. show lessTags
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Comes across as lightweight (not so) and suffers the usual disadvantages of the compendium approach. It's great strength is the strength of its subjects - a crack selection of contemporary Parisian chefs.
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Patricia Wells is a journalist, author, and cooking school teacher who has lived in France since 1980. She was the global restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune for more than 25 years. Patricia is a four-time James Beard Award winner whose other book titles include Bistro Cooking, The Paris Cookbook, and The French Kitchen show more Cookbook. Her cooking school, At Home with Patricia Wells, is conducted in both Paris and Provence, where she lives with her husband, Walter. Visit-her websites PatriciaWells.com and FoodLoversParis.com. show less
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