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French Milk

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I hope to goodness she's done a better job of it this time and has gained a little more self-awareness in the years since French Milk was created.

My main issue has always been that, while she often states that she's going to explore an concept and make meaningful observations, she rarely delivers. since the last time i was in paris, i too was a young woman in her early 20s (that trip kicked off a period in my life of which i am not particularly proud! If you enjoy travel memoirs mixed with food, may I recommend to you A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg? Also, there was a bit where she said all the French guys were annoyingly handsome in a way that made them seem "irritatingly entitled to blow jobs". Readers of French Milk, unfortunately, would be hard-pressed to be able to imagine themselves in Paris unless they had other images of the city in their heads already.Especially considering it opens with some introduction about how the trip broadened her horizons and deepened her relationship with her mother (who she traveled with) or some such thing, and I rarely saw evidence of that on the page. Take note: a cream must have at least 30 percent fat content to whip; creams with less fat content are delicious, and good for sauces, baking, or dessert but they will not whip up. Treating youth as a get-out-of-jail-free card with regards to published works is something that irritates me anyway - if a book is published, it should be held to the same standards regardless of the author's age. Maybe I came in with unrealistic expectations, compared to Barry it seems very shallow and frivolous. Après la lecture de "Délices", que j'avais beaucoup aimé malgré un dessin quelconque et une colorisation fâcheuse, je me suis jetée sur "French Milk", autre récit autobiographique de Lucy Knisley non traduit en français celui-là.

It's a travelogue of Knisley's month in Paris with her mother, a joint twenty-second/fiftieth birthday present, predominantly focusing on the food she ate. For some nations, fresh milk is far more refreshing and tasty and the concept of storing it a cardboard box at room temperature - let alone drinking it warm - is bizarre, unsavoury and potentially risky. A popular Cafe owner friend of mine, does not use any fresh milk for tea's or coffee, he uses Tesco Whole Long-Life whole milk (it MUST be the WHOLE MILK version, not skimmed or semi) and no-one, but no-one, has ever complained.If this type of thing sells, maybe I can make a living selling graphic accounts of my dentist appointments. It's in black and white, most of it looks like abstract swirls, I know it was major part of the trip but it didn't really enhance the story. Embodied knowledge is very unique as it shows the mixing of personal feelings and how they become attached to Paris.



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