Le Livre Blanc
Le Livre Blanc

Author: Anne-Sophie Pic

Publisher: Jacqui Small

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781909342118

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Le Livre Blanc is a cookbook that reinvents cuisine. Anne-Sophie Pic has taken the long-established culinary traditions of her family and her country, and re-imagined them through a contemporary and exhilarating approach to texture, form and flavor. The book includes 50 recipes that, like those of another culinary inventor, Heston Blumenthal, both inspire and amaze. From foams and emulsions, to working with sous-vide and siphons, the recipes transform the everyday, and the not-so-everyday, into the extraordinary. Throughout the book Pic delivers insights into her creative process, including the interplay of imagination and memory in creating dishes, and the associations between flavours and textures that make her cooking unique.

Le Livre Blanc
Le Livre Blanc

Author: Jean Cocteau

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers

Published: 2000-03

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780720610819

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Le Livre Blanc, a "white paper" on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau's contemporary Maurice Sachs and was at once decried as by the critics as obscene. It is now possible to issue it under Cocteau's name. The semi-autobiographical narrative describes a youth's love affairs with a succession of boys and men during the early years of this century. The young man's self-deceptive attempts to find fulfilment, first through women and then by way of the church, are movingly conveyed; the book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure. The book is fully illustrated and includes many woodcuts by the author.

LE LIVRE BLANC DE LA DROITE FRANCAISE
LE LIVRE BLANC DE LA DROITE FRANCAISE

Author: Daniel ZIV

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1291790209

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Une fois de plus, comme tous les 7 ans et meme parfois avant ainsi que l'ecrivait Maitre Francois Beranger, des elections vont plonger notre pays dans l'incertitude. CE livre a ete redige apres de longues conversations avec des hommes politiques de partis qui n'etaient pas de gauche. Ils etaient tous formels sur certains points: ils n'etaient pas des hommes du passe mais des nostalgiques de l'avenir. De plus ils ne voulaient pas le pouvoir pour le pouvoir mais le pouvoir pour pouvoir pouvoir. Ce livre se veut une approche exhaustive des pensees de certains politiques, pensees trop souvent meconnues ou incomprises."

The White Paper
The White Paper

Author: Jean Cocteau

Publisher: Disruptive Publishing

Published: 2013-01-18

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 1626570191

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Cocteau's short work, published anonymously in 1928 by the author (who never admitted to writing it; just providing some pictures), was translated by Austryn Wainhouse for Olympia in the early '50s. This is the tale of a young man coming to grips with his own sexuality, seeking shelter in the church, and finally, in the land of Cambaceres, coming to terms with it.

White Dog
White Dog

Author: Romain Gary

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2004-12

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780226284309

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Both a personal memoir and a French novelist's encounter with American reality, White Dog is an unforgettable portrait of racism and hypocrisy. Set in the tumultuous Los Angeles of 1968, Romain Gary's story begins when a German shepherd strays into his life: "He was watching me, his head cocked to one side, with that unbearable intensity of dogs in the pound waiting for a rescuer." A lost police canine, this "white dog" is programmed to respond violently to the sight of a black man and Gary's attempts to deprogram it—like his attempts to protect his wife, the actress Jean Seberg; like her endeavors to help black activists; like his need to rescue himself from the "predicament of being trapped, lock, stock and barrel within a human skin"—lead from crisis to grief. Using the re-education of this adopted pet as a metaphor for the need to quash American racism, Gary develops a domestic crisis into a full-scale social allegory.

Simple French Cookery
Simple French Cookery

Author: Raymond Blanc

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2016-05-19

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1448142040

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Bring a bit of France into your kitchen thanks to legendary, Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc. In this straightforward, easy-to-follow recipe book with specially commissioned photography, Raymond shows how simple, delicious and rewarding cooking the French classics can be! 'Fabulous' -- ***** Reader review 'Simple French Cookery. It does what is says on the cover!' -- ***** Reader review 'Best cookery book I own' -- ***** Reader review 'Very delicious and so very easy to follow - perfect' -- ***** Reader review 'A masterpiece' -- ***** Reader review **************************************************************************** In Simple French Cookery, Raymond Blanc demystifies French cuisine and demonstrates how enjoyable the simple, creative act of cookery can be. He describes the basic techniques needed to create traditional French food, details key ingredients and demonstrates 40 simple-to-follow versions of the most well-known French dishes. With step-by-step instructions, specially commissioned colour photographs to accompany every stage from start to finish, and menu planners, all 40 recipes - covering meat and vegetarian dishes as well as sweet treats - are quick and easy to prepare and use readily available ingredients. You are in safe hands with Raymond - his foolproof instructions guarantee excellent results every time, whether you've chosen to cook a French onion soup or a Chicken fricassée... Why not choose: Moules marinière Poached asparagus with mustard Pan-fried fillet of sea bream with ratatouille and tomato coulis Coq au vin Provençal rack of lamb with crushed peas Pot-au-feu with braised pork belly Gratin dauphinois Stuffed tomatoes Crème caramel Tarte Tatin

A Taste of My Life
A Taste of My Life

Author: Raymond Blanc

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0552157317

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Raymond Blanc knows more about food than pretty much anyone else. His cooking has been described as 'an extraordinary process of creativity, passion, subtlety, indeed genius'. His life and career to date have been utterly dedicated to the search for culinary perfection. Raymond is entirely self-taught and over the years has been developing and refining his philosophy of food and eating. Such is his reputation that his restaurant, Le Manoir, was awarded two Michelin stars even before it opened in 1984, and it remains one of our premier destination restaurants. He has taught many of Britain's most successful chefs, including Marco Pierre White and Heston Blumenthal. Now, for the first time Raymond is going to share the fruits of all that hard work and experimentation, and reveal the secrets of his gastronomy. Woven around stories from his years at the sharp end of the food business are his thoughts about where food is going and a passionate appeal for sustainable cuisine. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in food and cooking, this is the definitive book by a culinary genius.

Kolia
Kolia

Author: Perrine LeBlanc

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2013-08-26

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1770892206

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Set against the backdrop of Stalinism and then the collapse of the USSR, Kolia is a luminous and unforgettable story about a boy born in a Siberian Gulag and his eventual freedom and life as a clown in the Moscow circus in the 1960s. Kolia’s life begins in a labour camp in eastern Siberia in 1937. Iosif, a prisoner originally from Western Europe, teaches him the basic knowledge for survival in the harsh environment of the Gulag, but he also teaches him calculus, Russian, and French, before disappearing like most people who have lived in the open-air prison. After Stalin’s death, Kolia is released and he’s thrown into Soviet society. He joins a circus in Moscow, where he finds the comfort of a family and is successful until the collapse of the USSR. But the memory of Josef and the Gulag haunt him all his life. Kolia is a moving and deeply human novel that beautifully illustrates the resilience of the human spirit.

Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade
Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade

Author: Assia Djebar

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees her life in contrast to that of a neighboring French family, and yearns for more than law and tradition allow her to experience. Headstrong and passionate, she escapes from the cloistered life of her family to join her brother in the maquis' fight against French domination. Djebar's exceptional descriptive powers bring to life the experiences of girls and women caught up in the dual struggle for independence - both their own and Algeria's.