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| The Paris Cafe Cookbook : Rendezvous and Recipes from 50 Best Cafes | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Young
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 83179
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0688153305
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5944
EAN: 9780688153304
ASIN: 0688153305
Publication Date: November 4, 1998
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 GET READY TO PACK UP TO PARIS February 27, 2008
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.
 Could have been much more evocative October 28, 2003
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Daniel Young has two different purposes at work in this book, and they don't always seem to go together so well. On the one hand, he wants to give us a representative sampling of cafe cuisine, so we can recreate at home the tastes and smells of the Paris cafe experience. And here, I think, he succeeds admirably.
At the same time, however, he is also attempting to present us with something of a portrait of cafe culture -- a celebration, in the words of the introduction, "of what makes this institution so worth preserving." No less, the author hopes that after reading his book, we "should be prepared to choose a regular Parisian cafe to call your own." Frankly, I don't think he achieves this second goal nearly so well.
This book is divided, in standard cookbook fashion, by categories of food -- appetizers, entrees, and so on. Cafes are presented within each section based on the representative recipe Young has chosen from its menu. If more than one selection comes from a given cafe, however, they appear on different pages, sometimes widely separated. While the virtue of this approach is unmistakable for a cookbook, it does make it a bit more difficult to consider any given cafe.
While the writing about each cafe is generally pretty good, I didn't find the text-heavy layout and two-color photography particularly inviting. And for a book that's supposed to help us choose a cafe or two of our own, I was very disappointed that there were so few photos ... and that the ones that there were, were so often less than evocative. If Daniel Young's descriptive writing could be combined with the wonderful photography of Marie-France Boyer's The French Cafe, *that* would be a book to treasure.
In all, your opinion of this book will be colored by what you hope to get out of it. If, like some of the other reviewers on this page, you want to cook authentic and memorable cafe offerings in your own home, then this is probably just what you're looking for. But if you're searching for something that captures the mystique and romance of the cafe culture, then "The Paris Cafe Cookbook," while unquestionably a good start in that direction, will still leave a bit more to be desired.
Excellent Recipes August 13, 2002
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
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 March 7, 1999
25 out of 31 found this review helpful
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! December 17, 1998
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
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.
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