Jane Bertch, THE FRENCH INGREDIENT: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time; A Memoir
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Zibby is joined by cooking school owner and author Jane Bertch to discuss THE FRENCH INGREDIENT, the inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman navigating innumerable cultural differences to build a life in Paris and open her cooking school, La Cuisine Paris. Jane delves into the challenges of opening her business (and triumphing over French naysayers!) and navigating several other personal and professional obstacles while living abroad. She also discusses the importance of community, the significance of food in connecting people from different backgrounds, and her journey as a writer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and I am the host of this podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. |
| 0:08.1 | I am also a newly minted USA Today bestselling author of the novel, Blank. |
| 0:14.2 | I've created a whole community of book lovers around this podcast, a publishing company, reading retreats, a bookstore, and more. |
| 0:21.8 | Learn more at zivimedia.com or follow me on social at Zivie Owens or join the community at |
| 0:28.4 | Zibby Readers. Jane Birch is the author of The French Ingredient, making a life in Paris |
| 0:35.5 | one lesson at a time, a memoir. |
| 0:40.4 | Jane has spent more than two decades living and working in Europe. |
| 0:46.9 | In 2009, she started La Cuisine Paris, or maybe La Cuisine Paris, which has become the largest non-professional culinary school in France. |
| 0:49.5 | She holds a BA in English, an MA in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University |
| 0:53.7 | of Illinois, and an executive MA from the French Business School in English, an MA in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois, and an |
| 0:55.2 | executive MA from the French Business School in SAD. The French Ingredient is her first book. |
| 1:00.2 | Welcome, Jane. Thanks so much for coming on Mom's Don't have time to read books to discuss |
| 1:04.0 | the French ingredient, a memoir, making a life in Paris, one lesson at a time. Yes. Yes, |
| 1:12.9 | thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:20.1 | Okay. Well, it's pretty self-explanatory, basically, but people listening might not know what the cover is and that there's all this food on the cover and that the lessons, what type of lessons |
| 1:24.5 | you're talking about. So dive in a little bit and tell readers what to expect |
| 1:28.8 | in the French ingredient. Okay, fabulous. So I've tried to fine-tune this because I started a business |
| 1:35.8 | in the culinary world. And so people will potentially expect a cookbook or a recipe book. And it is |
| 1:43.3 | not that. And I'm not a chef. I hope a small |
| 1:46.2 | area of expertise that I like to focus on. So the book I like to think, Zibi, is a recipe for |
| 1:52.5 | doing life in Paris. And hopefully, hopefully, which I hope maybe you saw a little glimmer of, |
| 1:59.6 | a recipe for just doing life in general and starting |
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