Product Description

"Paris by Pastry" tours the city in a fresh, new way by tracking down the best pastry shops in town! The tastiest of treats are to be found around every corner with every turn of the page. The book features pastry shops along Paris's top attractions as well as a metro-line pastry tour. It also includes recipes from Paris's finest pastry shops. Savor every step!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #920067 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review

About the Author
Joyce Slayton Mitchell takes on her Parisian nom de plume Georgette as she sheds new light on the city of light with her traveling pal Jeanette, aka Beverly A. Thomas. Mitchell is author of 34 books as well as a lifelong francophile.

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Take the escalator sortie from the metro and you will be right at the door of Gosselim! It is only two blocks from the Musee d'Orsay, where it's best to eat your pastry on the steps watching the artsy street action. The pain aux raisins are a 10+ at 1.80 euro, the mille-feuilles creamy and oozing at 2.10 euro, and if you are planning a picnic lunch on the steps of the Orsay, then consider the sandwiches from this patisserie. The choices are few and the lines are long inside the museum. Unlike the Louvre, the food isn't as well organized at the d'Orsay, according to J et G, and who is more interested in your eating satisfaction while in Paris than Jeanette et Georgette?

Customer Reviews

Better To Go Hungry
Q. What could be better than a book about pastries in Paris?

A. Every other travel book I have ever read.



This is by far the most misguided, poorly organized, poorly written, misleading, worst edited travel book I have ever purchased. The cover looks like a stock photo issued by the Vichy government. OK, that can be quaint, but as I thumbed through it, I noticed many pages regarding the top tourist sights in Paris, a slew of recipes, rambling and inapplicable analogies, sleep-inducing asides and memoirs, and recitations of insipid overheard conversations.

There are simplistic graphics and poor quality black and white photos including one that appeared to be a colorfully decorated cake. This evoked a fond childhood memory. Do you remember when color TV sets first came out and they ran ads for them on your black and white set for you only to imagine what color images may look like. Oh yeah, there were some reviews of boulangeries and patisseries buried among the muck. Not one of which made me think, man does that sound delicious or I must go there. The reviews are as enticing as a sidewalk cafe next to a bus stop.



So, I decided to google the author, to see what she written and the publisher to ascertain if this was a vanity press publication. It is not.



Amazon enumerates the following books for the author: (I swear I did not make up these titles):



Tractor-Trailer Trucker: A Powerful Truck Book

Crashed, Smashed and Mashed: A Trip to Junkyard Heaven

Knuckleboom Loaders Load Logs



Her credentials clearly prepared her for Paris by Pastry.



So I prepare for my trip to Paris, I never thought I would consider Rick Steves' advice regarding eating the discarded food of others at cafeterias as brilliant.

"Paris by Pastry" takes readers on fabulous tour
Just returned from 6 days in Paris. PxP was given to me for Christmas and read on flight. It was fun exploring, with the easy Metro directions, the best, off the main tourist area locations. The little pastry shops around every corner must be some of the world's best. Yes, a French pastry is a wonderful thing!