The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 
proposed by Marie-Claire " A gallop "
She offers macaroons with raspberry in a rustle of silk paper
She speaks longingly of the delicate Japanese cuisine and sweets so comforting.
Presentation Editor "My name is Renee, I'm fifty-four years and I am the caretaker of 7 rue de Grenelle, a stately building. I am a widow, a small, ugly, plump I have onions and feet, according to some self-bothersome morning, a breath of a mammoth. But Above all, I'm so true to the image we have of that janitors would not come to the idea of person I am more literate than all those rich enough. My name is Paloma, I'm twelve years old, I live at 7 rue de Grenelle in an apartment for the rich. But for a very long time, I know the final destination is the fishbowl, emptiness and absurdity of adult existence. How do I know? It happens that I am very intelligent. Exceptionally intelligent, well. That's why I made my decision: at the end of this school year, the day of my thirteen years, I kill myself. Source Amazone.com Author Biography Muriel Barbery was born in 1969. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is his second novel. The precedent, a delicacy, is translated into twelve languages. Source Amazone.com
Julie & Julia Sex, blog and beef bourguignon Julie Powell 
proposed by Flo Bretzel Bretzel of Coffee and Cream She speaks there
can find among other : e the soup pie, eggs at the Burgundian, the steak with marrow ...
Presentation Editor A young New Yorker soon thirties, tired of linking jobs without interest, decides to resume her life. Seizing the old cookbook of her mother, The Art of French cooking by Julia Child, she invents a crazy project: to make the 524 recipes in the book ... In one year! In his tiny kitchen! With devastating wit and a touch of madness, she recounts her travels as a cook, his crisis of the thirties, his mother's intrusive, her best friend nymphomaniac ... Pure triumphant success in disasters, crises tears dinners alcoholic, she continued her road paved clumps of butter. And one day realizes that his life has changed. Source: Amazone.com Author Biography After a long interim secretary, Julie Powell became famous in 2004 thanks to the runaway success of his blog. For a year she has held the regular column of his culinary odyssey and personal. A year later, American publishers were snatched the rights to his book. Bestseller in the United States, the book will soon be made into a film. Julie Powell still lives in New York, where she shares a loft with her husband, a dog, three cats and a snake. Source: Amazone.com
Anne papillae and Pupils speaks here and has a Brioche
