Paris, My Sweet : A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate)

Sweets strike an emotional chord with people. Ask anyone about their favorite childhood candy or the best dessert they've ever eaten, and you will witness them wax poetic with a happy glint in their eye. It's this emotional pull and personal connection that will give everyone who has a sweet tooth a reason to pick up Paris, My Sweet. Organized into a baker's dozen of delicacies (and the adventures they inspired) that will tempt readers' appetites, Paris, My Sweet is about having faith and making choices. It will not only impart my personal insights to being a single thirtysomething woman living in a foreign country, but also share the addresses of the best patisseries, boulangeries and chocolatiers in New York and Paris that have shaped and colored one woman's delicious adventures along the way.Paris, My Sweet blends the best of memoir with journalistic food writing, it's an insider's guide to all things sweet in New York and Paris along with the personal stories of discovering them. This has the potential to appeal to several audiences -- those who like memoirs by sweet freaks, memoirs about what it means to be single in the city, memoirs set in alluring places -- all books that readers devour.