The 1000 recipes featured here offer you a veritable treasure trove of dishes from which to choose, representing cuisines from all around the world. You will find traditional British, French, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Caribbean, Moroccan, Indian, Chinese, Thai and Japanese recipes, to name but a few. All the essentials are there: roast beef and Yorkshire pudding from Britain, coq au vin from France, paella and gazpacho from Spain, lasagne and spaghetti bolognese from Italy, chicken chow mein from China and chicken korma from India.
•France remains the most popular tourist destination worldwide with nearly 80 million visitors a year. •The average American visitor spends 9-12 days in France. •There's no such thing as an "off season" in the South of France anymore; our authors guide the reader to the hard-to-find bargains and best values on the Riviera. •The South of France is more accessible than ever, with new (seasonal) service from London via Eurostar, and a high-speed Paris/Marseilles TGV connection recently added.
Frommer's France 2010 With Foldout Map. Beaune, the medieval capital of Burgundy, gets juiced up for the Les Trois Glorieuses wine festival in November. See chapter 13.
A brilliant biography of a facinating figure from French history.
A reasonably short and easy listen biography of Catherine De Medici, the Italian daughter of the banking (non-aristo) family that became Queen of France during the start of the religious reformation and attempted to steer France through a turbulent accommodation between established Catholic institutions and the new protestant philosophies.
This history of the development of the airplane by Spenser, a former curator of the National Air and Space Museum and author of 747, recasts the Wright brothers' contribution as he widens the scope to aviation history in France, Germany and beyond.
