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Further adventures on life in a small French town from Susan Loomis, cookery book writer and author of ""On Rue Tatin"". In this title, Susan Loomis shares with us how she, her husband and two children settled into life in a small French town, got to know neighbours and learned how to be accepted as inhabitants of the community, peppering her anecdotes with recipes. With her son going to a French school and her husband finding work in the town, Susan Loomis discovers the joys of the French lifestyle - the markets and the food in particular - but also some of the difficulties, particularly for those who are not born French. The story of the creation of her long-awaited dream cookery school should appeal to anyone who has ever thought of starting their own small business and anyone who longs to go to Rue Tatin.

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Praise for On Rue Tatin: 'Enchanting escapism - Nigella Lawson in Peter Mayle-land.' Daily Mail 'Where many writers merely love France, Susan Loomis knows it - its smells, people and manners...she shows that she is as natural a writer as she is a chef.' New York Times 'Slips down a treat, like Normandy cream - smooth and sweet with a touch of acidity. A pleasure from start to finish.' Daily Mail

Praise for 'Tarte Tatin': 'Enchanting escapism -- Nigella Lawson in Peter Mayle-land.' Daily Mail 'Where many writers merely love France, Susan Loomis knows it -- its smells, people and manners!she shows that she is as natural a writer as she is a chef.' New York Times 'Slips down a treat, like Normandy cream -- smooth and sweet with a touch of acidity. A pleasure from start to finish.' Daily Mail

On Rue Tatin was a major success for Susan Loomis, in terms of both the enthusiastic response from readers and the fact that it won the 2002 IACP Crystal Whisk Award for Literary Food Writing. Unsurprisingly it has been followed up by another instalment, this one focusing on how the American food enthusiast and her husband and young children take to life in the small French town of Louviers, northwest of Paris. There are few surprises awaiting the reader here, but Loomis's love for her subject matter is nothing if not contagious. Taking in travel, biography and the sumptuousness for which French cuisine is renowned, her prose rattles along joyfully, the narrative punctuated by a barrage of recipes laden with richness and flavour. Her keenness is easily matched by her knowledge - she graduated from La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine in 1981 - and her talent is obvious in her depiction of the dishes. So realistic is her conjuring up of the many delicacies that you can almost feel the calories piling up as you come to the end of another chapter. Having just about recovered from the pumpkin soup, you're confronted with an awesome spread of roasted guinea hens, legs of wild boar and a quite bewildering array of herbs and spices, all washed down with a 'golden and buttery' white or an equally palatable red. Tarte Tatin is as much about the little ambushes that await the adventurous strangers who arrive in small towns anywhere in the world as it is about the actual food, but that's not to be taken as a criticism. Clearly, there still exists an insatiable appetite for this type of book, and when the quality is of such a high standard as Susan Loomis's latest offering, there is life in the old genre yet. (Kirkus UK)

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Susan Loomis was born in Orlando, Florida. Her childhood was spent moving around the USA and from country to country with her military father. She met and married Michael Loomis, a sculptor, in 1983. They now live on Rue Tatin in Louviers with thier two young children.

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