Bøger af Carole Bumpus

Sophie believed her childhood nightmares were safely behind her when she married and moved from France to the US-but when her mother, Marcelle, calls her to her deathbed and asks her to honor one final request ("Find Pourrette!"), Sophie can't refuse. Marcelle, who never knew her father, has carried the Pourrette name-along with the shame of illegitimacy-her whole life; now it's up to Sophie to scour that stain from her family's past.Kate, Sophie's friend, who gave up her illegitimate child for adoption during wartime, finds herself awash in her own shame when her now-thirty-year-old daughter reappears in her life-and she jumps at the opportunity to help Sophie search for her grandfather in France.Like the braiding of three strands of brioche, the lives of these three women become inextricably intertwined as each struggles to resolve issues from the past that have defined their lives.

An intimate peek inside French homes and lives, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre or "peasant foods"), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditions--sprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memories--this culinary food and travel memoir reveals French families at their best and at their own dinner tables.er tables.

"Do you want to visit Italy, or do you want to experience Italy?" Those enticing words were the lure that emboldened Carole Bumpus and her husband to take a month-long trip to Italy one memorable September-a trip during which they discovered a land of unforgettable characters, sumptuous traditional foods, and sublime beauty.

An intimate peek inside the homes and lives of the French, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre¿¿peasant foods¿), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditions, sprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memories, this culinary travel memoir¿the second of the Savoring the Olde Ways series¿reveals French families at their best and at their own dinner tables.