Chris Newens: Cooking the Books Live from Paris

This week in a special extra episode, we’re live in Paris at the
legendary Belleville bistrot Le Mistral with Chris Newens, the
winner of the 2024 Jane Grigson Trust Award for best debut food
writer for his gastronomic journey through the arrondissements of
Paris, Moveable Feasts.


The name of the book is a nod to Chris’ idol, Ernest Hemingway
and his memoir of a struggling expat writer making his way
in Paris during the 1920s. And in front of a live audience made
up of many of his friends and fans who have already made that
left turn and are living the expat dream, we talked about
curating the bubble of Parisian gastronomy. We began with an
introduction to the evening by the queen of French food,
Francophile journalist and author of Amuse Bouche, how to eat
your way around France, Carolyn Boyd


And you can buy Moveable Feasts and Amuse Bouche at the Cooking
the Books shop on bookshop.org by clicking on the links.


And then head over to my Substack for the photos from the Paris
show on Extra Bites. 


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