This pamphlet is equal parts guidebook, cultural snapshot, and propaganda piece. A central aim is to dispel any prejudices American soldiers may have about the French-- especially relating to their quick capitulation in 1940. Warning soldiers that the defeat "is a raw spot which…
"You are about to play a personal part in pushing the Germans out of France. Whatever part you take-rifleman, hospital orderly, mechanic, pilot, clerk, gunner, truck driver-you will be an essential factor in a great effort." As American soldiers fanned out from their beachhead i…
Revolt, she said
by Kristeva, Julia, Petit, Philippe
fromSemiotext(e) foreign agents series
Revolt, she said
by Kristeva, Julia, Petit, Philippe
fromSemiotext(e) foreign agents series
Paris to Provence is a culinary travelogue of separate summers spent in France, interweaving a collection of simple recipes with evocative memories and stories of those years.
In this book, French-Caribbean writer and philosopher Édouard Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex vision of a world in transformation. He sees the islands of the Antilles as enduring as "invalid" suffering imposed by history, yet also as a…
Drawing on data from a range of contexts, including classrooms, pharmacy consultations, tutoring sessions, and video-game playing, and a range of languages including English, German, French, Danish and Icelandic, the studies in this volume address challenges suggested by these q…
The book that cracks the code, from the incomparable Patricia Wells. An acclaimed authority on French cuisine, Ms. Wells has spent more than 30 years in Paris, many as former restaurant critic for The International Herald Tribune. Now her revered Food Lover's Guide to Paris is b…
Well-known chef, Hubert Keller, shares his family Christmas traditions and 20 of his favorite recipes from his boyhood home of Alsace, France.
Souvenirs is a memoir cookbook written by the multitalented Hubert Keller: chef, restaurateur, and Frenchman. Through personal stories and 120 recipes, the book explores his classical training and traces his development as a creative superstar chef. Keller apprentices in a Miche…
A collection of recipes by the chef of Paris's Frenchie to Go restaurant draws on his experiences as an orphaned cook and an international culinary student and demonstrates the results of his experiments with unusual flavors.