{"id":31885,"date":"2008-04-22T01:37:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T01:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathycasey.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/book-review-hungry-for-paris\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T01:37:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T01:37:49","slug":"book-review-hungry-for-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/?p=31885","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Hungry for Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"978-0-8129-7683-0 by kc food blog, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24707605@N06\/2413509007\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"240\" alt=\"978-0-8129-7683-0\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3154\/2413509007_51281fb475_m.jpg\" width=\"160\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/240;\" \/><\/a>The price of a plane ticket, hotel, and the dollar to euro conversion alone is reason enough to hang up a dream of a vacation in Paris. Sad, no? Instead, pick up an Edith Piaf CD, a nice bottle of Burgundy and cozy up with Alexander Lobrano\u2019s new book, &#8220;Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City\u2019s 102 Best Restaurants&#8221;. From the start, Lobrano has you hooked with the story of how he fell for the city and a life as a food writer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beef was chewier than what I knew at home, but I\u2019d never eaten a sauce like that in my life. What did it taste like? Smoke, beef, blood, salt, onions, mushrooms, and wine. I spooned, dunked and licked until not a drop of the velvety garnet-colored sauce was left and later spent a restless night knowing that I\u2019d never be free of a powerful, permanent craving for more. Little did I know then that this addiction would become the compass by which I would live my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The European correspondent for Gourmet magazine asks you to consider him the good friend you need to navigate the city\u2019s vast dining scene. He clears up any misconceptions right away with a chapter titled \u201cThe Happy Eater\u2019s Almanac\u201d, and, his reviews read like vignettes, with a synopsis at the close of what not to miss. In this charming collection he covers them all from intimate taverns to haute cuisine, seasonal eating to dining alone,\u00a0leaving no culinary cobblestone unturned.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in the Seattle Area, you\u2019re in luck, as Lobrano will be reading from his book at Janiuk Winery April 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of a plane ticket, hotel, and the dollar to euro conversion alone is reason enough to hang up a dream of a vacation in Paris. Sad, no? Instead, pick up an Edith Piaf CD, a nice bottle of Burgundy and cozy up with Alexander Lobrano\u2019s new book, &#8220;Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11760],"tags":[11803,11857],"class_list":["post-31885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dishing-with-kathy-casey-blog","tag-recent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dishingwithkathycasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}