Tag: Paris

• The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time

  

  The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) is delighted to host author Jane Bertch on Thursday, April 11 at 6:30 pm for a discussion featuring her new book, The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time, the inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school in Paris. A…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  April 2, 2024

  #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Audiobooks, Author event, Book signings, Book Stall, Chicago, Cooking School, Food, Gastronomy, Paris

  “The French Ingredient”, book signing, Humor, Jane Bertch, La Cuisine Paris, Memoir, Paris, The Book Stall

• The Last Dress From Paris

  

  London, 2017. There’s no one Lucille adores more than her grandmother (not even her mother, she’s ashamed to say). So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks Lucille to help secure the return of something precious to her, she’s happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to Paris, tasked with…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  November 7, 2022

  #books, Audiobooks, Coulture, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Kindle, Paris, Romance

  audiobook, Courture, Dior, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Jade Beer, Kindle, London, Paris, Postwar France, Romance, The Last Dress from Paris

• Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

  

  A compelling look at three talented women and their youthful time, separately, in Paris and the great city’s influence on their lives.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 7, 2022

  #books, Biography, Culture

  "Dreaming in Paris", Alica Kaplan, Angela Davis, Biography, Culture, expatriate literature, Jackie Kennedy, Paris, Susan Sontag, Yale University