The Little Bookroom and Pudlo France
Awhile back, I wrote a post about a gem of a website, The Little Bookroom, which features beautiful volumes devoted to travel, food, wine, shopping and equally beautiful journals that easily inspire one to jot down thoughts that could be a future title on this charming site.
Previously, I mentioned a book by Gilles Pudlowski, Pudlo Paris, a guide to all that is yummy in Paris–restaurants, bars, cafés and gourmet shops. A foodie’s Paris bible if there ever was one.
Now, Mr. Pudlowski has taken his show on the road. Pudlo France, just out last month, is a comprehensive journey through the entire country, listing places to lay one’s head and fill one’s tummy all across France. The size of a brick, this book will not fit in your back pocket. But it will provide you with a well thought out listing of the good, better and best restaurants and hotels to fit most budgets, arranged in alphabetical order according to town, highlighted on glossy maps that take trip planning from headache to pure pleasure.
In my very humble experience, I would have to say that getting someplace and throwing one’s suitcase on a saggy mattress that saw better days in the 60’s and metal folding chairs considered the equivalent of “comfy”, takes the joy out of travel. Equally disappointing is taking stabs in the dark as to what restaurants to try as you spend as little time as possible in your hotel room. I love food–I don’t want to make meal mistakes. I want my mouth to dance with culinary delights that are awaiting me whether they be at a Guy Savoy establishment or a mom and pop café that feels like you have been invited to dinner at some-one’s home. Mr. Pudlowski has been gracious enough to eat and sleep his way through France so we can eliminate our own personal travel catastrophes.
I must say, the man is a genius–he did not suggest the hotel my daughter and I stayed in on our trip to Menton. That alone is worth the price of the book. Trust me.
Photo credit: Little Bookroom
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