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My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story

Luisa Weiss

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Feb 22, 2017 Diane rated it liked it

Shelves: pop-sugar-challenge-2017, era-contemporary

A fun romance story - with recipes. :)

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Jun 19, 2012 Daisy rated it liked it

Shelves: food, germany, aroundtheworld2012, food-memoir-with-recipes

I don't regret spending time with this book--and I had so looked forward to it too. It has its charms. I read it eagerly--except for a bit of a lull in the middle where there's a crisis. There's plenty of French and Italian food and atmosphere in here, but the more interesting parts are the German sections because that's a lesser-known area in the likable food-memoirs of today. She's an interesting woman, Luisa Weiss, with her many cultures and all those languages. She's shy and not showy. She l ...more

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Oct 01, 2012 Lisa of Hopewell rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2012

This is one of two books this month that "spoke" to me so strongly I sort-of "live tweeted" reading them. I say sort of because I used Facebook. While there ARE reasons to snark on this one--her self- centeredness, her certain knowledge that a fulfilling, authentic, oh- don't-you-wish-you-were-me-?-life can only be lived in NYC, I have chosen to ignore those. I understood her longing for food, for the scents of food. I can still bring back to my mind the exact scent of my grandmother's spice cab ...more

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