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1. Anonymous
   09/06/2009 at 8:22 pm

   Delightful
   Rating:5 out of 5 stars
   This book makes a great gift for lovers of food and Paris, as the pictures are amazing and they coordinate beautifully with the recipes and the text. Highly recommend.

2. Signee Swartley
   09/09/2009 at 12:56 pm

   Superb culinary guide for the foodie
   Rating:5 out of 5 stars
   I purchased this book before a trip 9 years ago, and My friend and I wandered around the food markets as well as enjoying the wonderful restaurants. The recipes are unique and some of them are French staples. I would love to rent a flat and do my shopping in the fresh air markets so I can enjoy this book even more thoroughly. You have to try the Coq au vin recipie. It is delicious.

3. Enrique Cervera
   09/13/2009 at 11:14 am

   Awesome!
   Rating:5 out of 5 stars
   I used to live in Paris, and looking at this book transported me back there with such vividness that I was relishing like I used to. I lived next to the Marché Montergueil, and did my shopping there literally every day. This book, the text, the format, the excellent pictures in it, everything is just… delicious! It really gives a sense of what it is like to shop for your everyday meal, the beauty of dealing with the “petit marchand” (retailer). Shopping for food in Paris is really an intimate and personal experience, and Nicole and Amanda have, amazingly, really given me back this experience in this beautiful book. Thank you very very much!

   Be sure girls that you have… A friend in New York (you can always invite me for dinner…. hint hint!) Enrique Cervera alias el pigüi

4. Anonymous
   09/15/2009 at 8:23 am

   A reader from Paris-France
   Rating:5 out of 5 stars
   Yes,indeed Amanda & Nicolle really did it! Their superbly documented book (photos,history, recipes…)shows how much one can discover about his home town. You lover of Paris,open air markets and food do not hesitate a minute,get this book,it’s pure delight! And you,who might not belong to one of the categories do likewise you will not regret it! While reading the book you have this unique feeling to be walking the streets of Paris with the authors. And you lucky traveller who might be coming through town in not to a distant future,take the book with you,go and see the places,the markets, taste the food,chat with the vendors,and you will marvel at the fact that you have been there before. Because nothing is missing in that book,the true feeling of the city,the noises,the colors and even the tastes and odors. Two thumbs up Amanda & Nicolle ! Where and when the next one ?

   A fan (if you did not guess ! )

5. cheryltxst
   09/22/2009 at 8:32 am

   A Feast For The Eyes!!
   Rating:5 out of 5 stars
   Although this book was written in 2000, when I saw it at a book boutique I bought it immediately…a fabulous book on a unique culinary culture for those who love to delve into french cooking recipes. I highly recommend it! The photos transport you back there and it has made me so homesick to return to Paris again even though I return there every year when I can to visit family there and have always made it a pilgrimmage to go to the Marches a few times a week, especially to the ‘Richard Lenoir Marche at Place de La Bastille in the 11th arrondisement…you can spend the entire morning (they close at 1PM) there perusing from table to table and end your day walking home in the streets of Paris with a tote-ful of delicacies to prepare the sumptious evening ‘repas’
   
   The varieties of each food are endless and fabulous and fresh, the colors of the fruits and vegetables are brilliant, the energy at the marches are exhuberant, and venders are so proud of their products…This book really does take you back to feeling like you are there in the midst of a culinary feast; the recipes are easy and with US measurements, and the descriptions of each arrondisement gives you such a personal tour that you feel akin to each personality they present you with. This is really the true colloquial joie de vivre experience in Paris-a way to commune with nature’s bounty. I highly recommend this book; 5 stars!! a true feast for the eyes!!

6. Anonymous
   09/23/2009 at 8:57 pm

   A lovely gem of a book
   Rating:5 out of 5 stars
   I love this book! The cover roped me right in and before I knew it I was buying it. I am so glad I did. The book is organized by arrondissement; each chapter is devoted to one of them. They tend to focus on the biggest or best market in each arrondissement but they devote paragraphs to the others. The text itself is gracefully written and yet very convivial. For each of the main markets, the authors start you out on a typical Parisian morning and gently suggest the path you might want to follow as you navigate that particular market; it is almost as though they are walking along with you. They tell you what’s available at each market and what are each market’s strengths and weaknesses. You will be introduced to a lot of people – the butcher at the Marché d’Aligre, the poissonier at the Richard Lenoir, the organic farmer at the Batignolles market, the interesting old fellow who hawks bath salts as he soaks his feet in green water… I feel as though I’d be able to walk up to them and say hi. There’s some history mixed in there, too, so you’ll get to see some nice old photos and learn about everday Parisians of the past. And of course there are the recipes. Most of them appear delicious and a few rather exotic. Many of them come from the very people that you “met” in the chapter preceding, so you know they’re authentic and the human element makes you want to try the recipe all the more.

   I love Paris. This book really gives you a sense of what it is like to be there – colorful, vibrant, stately, modern, classic, young, old… Paris is all of these things and more at once. I went there seven years ago and I don’t think I hit a single market. This book makes me feel incredibly well-equipped; I think that without it I would feel a bit intimidated. I plan to go back and I’m gonna bring this book with me!

7. Anonymous
   09/24/2009 at 10:01 pm

   Paris in a Basket
   Rating:4 out of 5 stars
   The photography is beautiful and the content is very informative and well written. I would like to visit the markets in Paris more than ever now that I have this book.

8. Leanne Edwards
   10/01/2009 at 2:54 am

   The best
   Rating:5 out of 5 stars
   I bought this book prior to my last visit to paris (08) and photo copied the back pages with the markets and the areas they were in but didn’t copy the days they were open… so I bought it in French, while I was in paris… it is the best I have seen so far, well really I stopped looking for anything better because I don’t think I would find it…well worth purchasing..

9. Anonymous
   10/02/2009 at 7:26 pm

   A Valentine for Paris
   Rating:5 out of 5 stars
   Any lover of good food and great photographs will adore this book. Using over 50 Paris markets as a backdrop, recipes and pictures for wonderful cuisine bourgoise dishes are presented, as well as a plethora of historical vignettes, photographs of almost 50 cheeses, pictures of commonly encountered French seafood, and a drawing with explanation of French beef cuts, plus photos of Parisian scenes. Among the vignettes surrounding the history of Les Halles, who can forget the explanation by a turn-of-the-century father to his young daughter that all those seductive ladies lounging in the vicinity of Les Halles are “secretaries” to the local businessmen? This beautiful book is the next best thing to being in Paris on a sunny spring day with somebody you deeply love.

10. Anonymous
    10/03/2009 at 1:08 am

    Perfect Christmas Gift!
    Rating:5 out of 5 stars
    Beautiful photography and lively writing make this a perfect gift this holiday season (or any time) for anyone who likes to eat and loves Paris. Even for a longtime resident of the City of Lights like myself, this book brings another Paris to life, one you will want to explore again and again, in these pages and of course like the authors did themselves, bicycling through every arrodisement, leaving no quartier unvisited, no fromage untasted, no croissant unfinished! A magnificent and original hommage sure to earn its place among the classics of cuisine and travel.

11. Anonymous
    10/12/2009 at 1:10 pm

    Beautiful!
    Rating:5 out of 5 stars
    I just received this book in the mail. It is a beautiful and loving story of Paris markets. I was pleasantly surprised by the recipes. The presentation of them, in photos, is wonderfully done. This book is not organized like a typical travelbook, but I believe it will be a good resource (good research) for my next trip to Paris.

12. Georgia K Basbanes
    10/12/2009 at 3:02 pm

    Love in a Basket
    Rating:5 out of 5 stars
    I’ve just had an incredible tour of Paris. I love the city, but I never appreciated the depth of the people and their everyday life as much as when walking through the wonderful markets with the Misses Smith and Meyer. This is a total effort, not just a beautiful picture book. It is for us who appreciate the food, people and, most of all, love for each other. We get a chance to interact with people just like us. This is the stuff that gives beauty to reality.

13. Tea Time
    10/28/2009 at 6:26 pm

    Very creative
    Rating:5 out of 5 stars
    Nicolle Aimee Meyer and Amanda Pilar Smith have created a book that is part travel guide, part cookbook, part biography — and all wonderful! The photographs are terrific. The text brings the markets and their people to life. And I can’t wait to try some of the recipes, which are for many classic French favorites. Altogether a complete success! Bravo!!

14. Shelley Marshall
    11/01/2009 at 10:21 pm

    A Parisian’s Paris …
    Rating:5 out of 5 stars
    A must for anyone seeking out the real Paris, off the beaten track of tourist traps. Even if you can’t visit more than two or three markets per visit to this wonderful city, this book will continue to be a major reference for seeking out these fascinating places of food, drink and ‘objets’. Happy exploring!