The Taste of Forever

Food, family, friends, California, France...Meredith Escudier's food memoir journeys from an upbringing in northern California to a village in southern France with a good thirty years of Parisian life sandwiched in between. From the school hot dog of her early days to the many ingenious uses of a baguette, the memoir celebrates the little moments that surround the discovery and enjoyment of food. Defined by her adult life in France - marrying a Frenchman and raising a family - the author shifts fluidly between participant and observer, tenderly deconstructing the French relationship to food, while rendering a host of personal stories around the pleasures of the table - some nostalgic, others instructive, most of them charmed.