Fans of the very tasty Chocolat have been devouring author Joanne Harris’s sequel, The Girl with No Shadow.
BookPage calls it a “decadent sequel” adding “If Chocolat was milk chocolate, The Girl with No Shadow is the darker, more nuanced confection.”
Yum!
If you have a sweet tooth are bound for Paris, make sure to plan ahead so that you don’t miss a single bon-bon.
Things to know (i.e., use as an excuse to indulge) about chocolate: a recent lab study showed that cocoa reduced the growth rate of colon cancer cells; flavanols naturally found in dark chocolate and cocoa have been shown to help regulate immune responses in the body; rats given supplements of the flavonoid antioxidants similar to those found in chocolate performed better on memory-testing water maze tests.
So make yourself a map, root out those cognac truffles and snuffle them up.
Our travel collection now includes The Patisseries of Paris: Chocolatiers, Tea Salons, Ice Cream Parlors, and More, a tasty guidebook by Jamie Cahill containing almost 100 profiles complete with mouth-watering full color illustrations.
In the introduction the author shares with us that she has spent four years combing Paris in search of these culinary delights and that the best patisseries are so hard to find. I wonder if her publisher would like to hire me to find 100 more.
The publisher in question is Little Bookroom a small New York firm that specializes in art and culture related travel books for world-wide destinations.
For Paris alone their titles include Walks through Napoleon and Josephine's Paris, Picasso's Paris: Walking Tours of the Artist's Life in the City, and Literary Paris : a Guide.
They have also thoughtfully brought us the Pudlo Paris guide, available in English for the first time in its 17 year history. Created by Gilles Pudlowski, France's most respected food writer and critic, the Pudlo is considered by discerning Parisians as the most informed and sophisticated restaurant guide published today.
Bon appetit!
