David Lebovitz's L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home follows San Francisco chef Lebovitz as he purchases a home in Paris after renting there for several years. Part cookbook, part autobiography, it is aptly named for how quickly his apartment dreams fall apart. Lebovitz does an excellent job of setting the scene and describes to the reader exactly what he wants them to see and understand when discussing his Parisian home.

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