My Place at the Table

Alexander Lobrano shares the story of his life, going from a boy in Connecticut to a renowned food critic in Paris. He was first hired to work in Paris as a young man, without much knowledge of French, without much knowledge of the city, without much knowledge of men's fashions, as a men's fashions writer there; I am still amazed at how he was hired for that. He began to find ways to write about food, his true passion, and eventually became a correspondent for Gourmet and one of Paris' leading newspapers.

Reading his food writing kept me as entranced as if I were reading a good novel.