Paris is famous for its superb restaurants, but this book throws its net much wider and selects choice examples of the best food that the Parisians themselves eat and buy. The former restauranteur and cook, Irène Lassus-Fuchs, has her ear to the latest culinary talk, and has here made a personal selection of the huge variety of foods, both traditional and adventurous, to suit all tastes and pockets, that makes Paris the food capital of the world.

Irène Lassus-Fuchs is a restauranteur, cook and translator who has lived and worked in Paris for nearly forty years. She opened the higly successful Les Petites Sorcieres restaurant in Rue Liancourt in the Quatorzieme Arrondissment in 1982, and has since established new restaurants in Paris, Strasbourg and Marseille. Her translations include many British and American cook books on cuisine from all over the world, includign several books on the crafts and history of art, architecture and design