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Spotted Dick S'il Vous Plait: An English Restaurant in France
Spotted Dick S'il Vous Plait An English Restaurant in France Author:Tom Higgins When Tom Higgins, a translator, and his wife, Sue, a physician, decided to set up an English restaurant in Lyon, France (the country's capital of fine dining), they had no idea what they were getting into. In this delightful memoir of their first eight years in business, Higgins recounts all -- from the amused disbelief of their neighbors wh... more »o regard English food as a joke, to the frustrating impenetrability of the French licensing bureaucracy, from the positive delight in choosing wines and creating menus, to, ultimately, the extraordinary feeling of running a good restaurant that pleases the most fussy diners in the world.
Included in this charming tale are twelve typically English recipes that anyone can make!« less