A Long Look Back: A Sentimental Journey of an American Growing Up in France
Richard H Rogers is a third-generation francophone. His paternal grandmother arrived in Paris as a young woman in 1913 for the last social season before the Great War; his father grew up in Paris in the 1920’s and later returned during the war and remained in Paris for a number of years. The author writes lovingly about France, its people, culture, and way of life and most importantly its incredible food. In A Long, Look Back: A Sentimental Journey of an American Growing up in France, readers will find an interesting portrayal of the author’s life in France as a young boy in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It is a perspective that is often combined with beautiful meals and delicious wines. The author’s passion and deep love for France is made undeniably clear.
Readers will be signing on to an entertaining, often humorous, sentimental journey set first in the rugged and beautiful Emerald Coast of Brittany then in Paris and in Neuilly s/Seine and concluding with a collections of unique travel and food experiences as the author meanders down from Lyon to the Côte d’Azur. A separate section is devoted to a collection of delicious, traditional French recipes “Cuisine grand-mère,” because how can one talk or write about France without having fully appreciated and immersed oneself, in its cuisine.
A Long, Look Back is an undeniably wonderful, warm-hearted, tender journey into a France of yesteryear.
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