Elizabeth Bard writes food memoir about France, marriage and building a life across cultures. Lunch in Paris begins with an American journalist falling in love with a Frenchman and learning the rhythms of Parisian family meals, markets and everyday cooking; recipes are woven through the memoir rather than separated into a conventional cookbook section. Picnic in Provence continues after the couple leave Paris and start a new life in southern France, eventually building an ice-cream business. Dinner Chez Moi turns more directly towards recipes and the practical habits of French home cooking. Bard's books are warm, observant and food-centred, fitting culinary memoir, expatriate writing, French lifestyle and recipe-inflected nonfiction. Read more Less