Eating With Peter

A life-changing journey intertwining high romance, gastronomy, and an unsurpassable joie de vivre for readers of Julie and Julia and My Paris Kitchen.

Susan's life would never be the same after she meets Peter Buckley. A man who was larger than life, Peter pulls Susan out of her comfort zone to taste the fine life, literally. Together they embark on a rollicking adventure through Michelin-starred restaurants in France to the souks of Morocco and the waters of the Red Sea and the Caribbean. They explore the world, and along the way discover the most desired tables (sometimes in a tent) and the best markets, moving from Peter's adventures with Hemingway to sampling delectable treasures in an Alpine meadow.

When they return to New York, Susan and Peter—a writer, photographer, gourmand, as well as an inventive chef—incorporate their adventures into their daily American life. As they explore three-star restaurants, French farms, and Italian cheesemakers, the reader gets a taste of famous gastronomic dishes and their chefs, in addition to learning about mouth-watering recipes, culinary moments around the Buckley's kitchen and table with family and friends, and many of their New York food secrets.

If much has been written about La Haute Cuisine in the past, nothing compares to the fresh, personal, and tantalizing tone Eating with Peter offers. All twenty-eight recipes in the book have thoroughly been tested, and should invite the reader to recreate the joys of Susan and Peter's experience.

Susan Buckley is a New York–based writer, editor, and consultant. With Elspeth Leacock, she has written five YA books on American history including Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, coauthored with Lynda Blackmon Lowery. She has written many children’s books, was the general editor of the We the People textbook series, and was the editor of AppleSeeds magazine. Eating with Peter is her first adult book.

Dana Catharine is an artist, writer, and teacher living in Brooklyn. She has been drawing all her life, both as a student with Maestro Jesús Gallardo at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico, and with Nikki Ohrbach at the Art Students League in New York City, and as a modern language teacher using drawing as translation.