A fresh look at French life, culture, and society through its most popular cultural export: food.
Few countries attract us like France, but how well do we really know the country? Nadia Pantel offers a fresh perspective on French life, culture, and society through its most popular export: food. With charm and wit, she shows how deeply food is intertwined with politics, society, and history in France. Pantel takes us to familiar and unfamiliar places, from a hedonistic yoga retreat in Brittany balancing Crémant glasses on our heads, to reflections on motherhood and colonialism over Pain au Chocolat and Cannalé cakes. She explores societal decline with lobster in Houellebecq’s favorite Paris restaurant and discusses ongoing unrest with the Merguez, the Yellow Vest sausage, and the nuances of political culinary nationalism.
