Hello everyone, you are listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is a show all about Paris.

And if it's your first time here, maybe one of those people that have chosen here to begin your journey with the Earful Tower, then let me give you a little bit of background.

Every week, I find someone interesting in Paris, talk to them for just over half an hour about their life,

about Paris and a little bit extra, and then I put it out as an episode every Monday morning

and I've been doing it for two years.

Today's guest is one of my favorite.

It's pastry chef, blogger turned author, Instagram, legend. I'm serious, actually. This guy's very good on

Instagram. If you haven't followed him, do it right now. His name is David Liebervitz.

David Liebervitz, he's an American from San Francisco in Paris. He's been here for ages,

long enough to know better than most of us. His new book is called Drinking French. Now let

me just stress this to you. This is absolutely not a cocktail book. There's everything in it.

There's coffee, there's hot chocolate tea, mint syrup, aperitif, all that kind of stuff. You'll hear

somewhere in the middle of the episode I sort of said I sort of

say to David is this just another cocktail book and he should have seen his

reaction to it you might be able to hear the astonishment in his eyes that's

how loud it was but it's in all seriousness it's more than just cocktails it's

all sorts of French drinks with the stories behind them and lots of fun observations on French people.

I've got a copy. It's great. You should get it too.

Drinking French, find it on David Liebervitz.com.

But before we get into that interview and before I say a little bit more about it, this show, this whole season where I'm going through all the Arandismonts, this whole season is brought

to you by my private Paris. They do boutique tours, custom tours, all over the city. I asked

Bertrand, who runs the company, I said, can you explain the 11th Arandeismont to me? Because

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