“The French take their bûche de Noël, the traditional Christmas Yule log cake, much more seriously. Gwendal had been training at school, and he came back with snapshots of his gleaming white glaçage, slick as black ice, decorated with a… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book.” (p. 105).” — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“Berthillon's ice cream is dense and creamy--- served, in keeping with French rules of moderation, in golf-ball-size scoops. You have to be a real… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“A French portion is half of an American portion, and a French meal takes twice as long to eat. You do the math.” — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“The description is a good one--- saffron's reddish-golden glow is very much my idea of sunshine in a bottle. Good saffron is sweet and… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“In Paris the past is always with you: you look at it, walk over it, sit on it.” — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“That's the real reason why French women don't get fat: every day they make "petites" decisions that keep the larger weight loss struggle from… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“Mostly I’m a thinker, a worrier … it’s not that there’s no free spirit in me. But it’s a free spirit with a five-year… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.” — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“The woman's face was like a stone tablet, as if the president of the chess club had wandered over to the Goth corner of… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“They weren't tears of sadness or even tears of joy. I was just overflowing. Like so many things since I'd been here, I didn't… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“My inner control freak had taken the day off... I had descended from the mountain of the perfect, into the valley of the possible,… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“A French conversation starter is more subtle. Work is considered boring, money is out of the question, politics comes later (and only in like-minded… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
“He was still open to the magic of this place. I didn't know a lot of people who were open to magic at all.” — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
