American blogger in Paris: David Lebovitz dispels romance, maintains flavor - washingtonpost.com
PARIS -- One taste of the caramelized white chocolate ice cream he has just pulled from the freezer, and David Lebovitz has an opinion: "I think it's missing something. Ginger? No. Kirsch? No. Baileys? Would that be weird?"
Actually, it all looks pretty fun from the outside, at least if you read Lebovitz's quirky blog (http://www.davidlebovitz.com), his thousands of tweets or his recent memoir-with-recipes, "The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious -- and Perplexing -- City" (Broadway Books, 2009). With a wry wit evocative of David Sedaris ("except that he's an actual writer, and I'm not"), this former Chez Panisse pastry chef brings a curmudgeonly voice to his attempts to translate French culture, food and otherwise, for Americans...
Actually, it all looks pretty fun from the outside, at least if you read Lebovitz's quirky blog (http://www.davidlebovitz.com), his thousands of tweets or his recent memoir-with-recipes, "The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious -- and Perplexing -- City" (Broadway Books, 2009). With a wry wit evocative of David Sedaris ("except that he's an actual writer, and I'm not"), this former Chez Panisse pastry chef brings a curmudgeonly voice to his attempts to translate French culture, food and otherwise, for Americans...
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