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Title: Pleasant and entertaining
Review: Okay, this is not a book to knock yuour socks off, but other reviewers have been a tad demanding in asking it to be one. It comforted me with apples. It is pleasant, amusing, well-written and extremely cosy reading. The recipes work; the anecdotes are slight but entertaining. Human life is here, though this ain't Victor Hugo.The genre of buying-a-French-wreck is getting a little shopworn, but I certainly preferred this to Peter Mayle's tiresome and tiring showing-off. It makes a good companion to the fine cookbook Loomis apparently wrote at the time covered by this book (French Farmhouse Cooking). I recommend this to all who enjoy Normandy, food and France.
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