The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century France

During les trente glorieuses—a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis—Paris was not only the world’s most delicious, stylish, and exciting tourist destination; it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius and innovation. The Gourmands’ Way explores the lives and writings of six Americans who chroni…