Vendredi 22 fevrier Festival du Livre Culinaire
The day I arrived back in Paris, the 22nd I immediately ran to the Festival du Livre Culinaire at the Carrousel in the Louvre. The same space where many fashion shows take place and the Spa fair. Of course there are tons of famous chef cookbooks on view at the festival.
There were antiquarian cookbook sellers too, some of my favorite..
Like this home cook book
There are far more kids cookbooks abroad than in the US evidently. No wonder French tastebuds are advanced if they learn to boil water while still in shorts.
There were gorgeous cookbooks of every region in the world on view...
Attend any conference or fair in Europe and you'll see the attendees dragging wheelie suitcases. These are for all the heavy catalogs handed out. Who knew?
Any cookbook expo has to have cooking demos.
They were nonstop at the Salon du Livre Culinaire. Here a Japanese chef used every fin and scale in his presentation.
My favorite book of the show was this lush guide to London tea salons, Tea Time: London's Best Afternoon Teas by reknown food photographer Jean Cazals.
It brought back memories of past tea cups I have painted...
It almost makes one want to rush off to the Eurostar and head for the nearest afternood tea with all the trimmings.
Still one mustn't grumble. There are plenty of fine tea salons right here in Paris some with a view of the Eiffel Tower. All in all the Paris Cookbook Fair was a spendid event.
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