Books, children, and Paris with Pamela Druckerman

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week I'm joined by best-selling author Pamela Druckerman. You might know her from her newspaper columns or her brilliant book Bringing up Bébé (aka French Children Don't Throw Food).

We discussed her work, the beauty of the Place de Vosges and even had the luck to talk our way into another Paris courtyard.

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0:00.0	Hello there. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. If you like shows about Paris, then
0:05.7	get comfortable because that's what this is all about. My name's Oliver G. And speaking of
0:11.0	getting comfortable, there's no better way to be comfortable than in a mattress. I'm just kidding.
0:16.4	We don't do mattress ads around here. We don't do any ads around here. In fact, this episode is
0:21.5	brought to you by my weekly newsletter. If you enjoy a little bit of Paris in your inbox,
0:27.3	subscribe to mine. It's different from all the other ones. Sometimes I sneak in little
0:32.8	secret threads that you can try and figure out and win prizes. In fact, there was a Paris related
0:39.1	one in the most recent edition. I'll reveal it at the end of this episode. But if you fancy
0:45.2	checking it out while we're talking, it's theearfultower.com slash newsletter. Now, as for today's
0:51.4	episode, you're going to meet Pamela Druckerman, an American author in Paris.
0:56.8	If you're thinking that name sounds familiar, of course, she's the author of Bringing Up Baby,
1:01.8	also known as French Children Don't Throw Food, brilliantly written, very witty.
1:08.0	She tells the story of bringing up a child in France, the difference between
1:12.2	French children, American children. And it's full of good laughs along the way, something I'm
1:17.6	particularly interested in rereading, actually, now that I've got a little one on the way too.
1:23.0	But Pamela's also written a children's book, Paris by phone. You can check out that on all the links
1:28.5	and the show notes. We'll talk about it in this episode, of course, but I want to talk about this
1:31.9	episode before we get into it, because it's a bit different. This episode wasn't recorded in a studio.
1:36.6	In fact, I haven't used the studio for about a year, partly because of the lockdown and the
1:40.8	curfew and everything. Secondly, I think it's nice to have some ambient noise in the background, like in this episode.
1:47.1	So I met Pamela at the Place DeVos, the famous ancient, I think we could even say ancient
1:54.0	park in the middle of the marade with the arcades all around it.
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