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The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique by Samantha Verant - contemporary foodie romance

#TheSpiceMasteratBistroExotique is lovely, entertaining, and heartwarming #contemporary #foodieromance ⭐⭐⭐.5 Many thanks to @BerkleyRomance @BerkleyPub for eARC via #NetGalley Full #bookreview on #bookblog #Booksteacupandreviews ⬇️

The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique is lovely, entertaining, and heartwarming contemporary foodie romance with hate to love trope. The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique by Samantha Verant Publication Date : December 6, 2022 Publisher : Berkley Books Genre : Romance / Contemporary Pages : 353 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Tea for this book : Indian Masala Disclaimer – Many thanks to publisher…

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REVIEW

THE SPICE MASTER AT BISTRO EXOTIQUE by Samantha Verant at The Reading Cafe:

‘wonderful, sweet love story’

http://www.thereadingcafe.com/the-spice-master-at-bistro-exotigue-by-samantha-verant-a-review/

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The Private Chef by Samantha Verant @samantha_verant @Stormbooks_co @NetGalley #bookreview

My Thoughts The story of The Private Chef is told from dual perspectives, and it’s really not as it seems. Unexpected turns fill the plot, forcing you to question if the characters you’re introduced to at the start are the bad guys or just regular folk in a bad place. This is just the kind of book I enjoy, one that keeps you guessing until the end. I highly recommend this to all thriller…

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A talented chef discovers how spices and scents can transport her--and, more importantly, how self-confidence can unlock the greatest magic of all: love. The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique by Samantha Verant  https://bit.ly/3UueAiB 

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5 Interesting French Nonfiction Books

1.Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir by Samantha Verant

At age 40, Samantha Verant's life is falling apart-she's jobless, in debt, and feeling stuck... until she stumbles upon seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy Frenchman she'd met in Paris when she was 19. With a quick Google search, she finds him, and both are quick to realize that the passion they felt 20 years prior hasn't faded with time and distance.

Samantha knows that jetting off to France to reconnect with a man that she only knew for one sun-drenched, passion-filled day is crazy-but it's the kind of crazy she's been waiting for her whole life. (Goodreads)

2. How to make a French family: A Memoir of Love, Food, and Faux Pas by Samantha Verant

The heartwarming, hilarious story of the culture clashes and faux pas that add up to one happy French family .

When Samantha is given a second chance at love at the age of forty, she moves to southwestern France, thinking she's prepared for her new role in life as an instant American wife and stepmom. It turns out, though, that making a French family takes more than just good intentions and a quick lesson in croissant-baking.

Even while suffering from culture shock and struggling to communicate with and parent her ten-year-old stepson and thirteen-year-old stepdaughter in a culture drastically different from her own, Samantha is determined to adapt to her adopted homeland—because when love and a new life is on the line, giving up isn't an option.(Goodreads)

3. A moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, editor of this edition, the book also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son, Jack, and his first wife Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of literary luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford, and insightful recollections of Hemingway’s own early experiments with his craft.

Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized. (Amazon)

4. The Treason Of The Intellectuals  by Julien Benda

The "treason" of which Benda writes is the betrayal by the intellectuals of their unique vocation. He criticizes European intellectuals for allowing political commitment to insinuate itself into their understanding of the intellectual vocation, ushering the world into "the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds." From the savage flowering of ethnic and religious hatreds in the Middle East and throughout Europe today to the mendacious demand for political correctness and multiculturalism on college campuses everywhere in the West, the treason of the intellectuals continues to play out its unedifying drama. (Goodreads)

5. In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou 

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love today - without the key ingredient of chance - is in mortal danger. Alain Badiou proposes a vision of love as an adventure of the individual.

Liberal and libertine reductions of love to instant pleasure and non-commitment bite the dust as Badiou invokes a supporting cast of thinkers from Plato to Lacan via Karl Marx to create a new narrative of romance, relationships and sex - one that does not fear love. (Goodreads)

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“A self-serve buffet had been set up with every quiche and tarte salée one could imagine, like a beautiful pissaladière made with onions, shiny black olives, and slippery anchovies, or the one with tomato, honey, and goat cheese.” ~ Samantha Verant, The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux #quiche with #bèchamel #sauce on top! #glutenfree #veggies #yummy #perfectdinner #addictiontogoodfood #tasty #happyfamily #kidsfavourite #smacznedanie #szczesliwarodzina #dziecifaworyt #megskitchen #mojapracownia #przepisy #bezglutenu #warzywapolowe #smacznejedzenie #zdrowepodejscie https://www.instagram.com/p/CORD1hcspkx/?igshid=kwvcb5go0iid

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SEVEN LETTERS FROM PARIS

by SAMANTHA VERANT

My rating: DNF

Too cheesy. I kept on laughing on the mentioned part it was distracting and I failed to focus. Sorry it wasn't for me.

39/80 books

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Review: The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux by Samantha Verant

☆☆➹⁀☆ 4.5 stars ☆➹⁀☆☆ The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux by @samantha_verant Genre: #ContemporaryFiction #WomensLiterature Publisher: @BerkleyPub

☆☆➹⁀☆ 4.5 stars ☆➹⁀☆☆

About the Book:

A disgraced chef rediscovers her passion for food and her roots in this stunning novel rich in culture and full of delectable recipes.

French-born American chef Sophie Valroux had one dream: to be part of the 1% of female chefs running a Michelin-starred restaurant. From spending summers with her grandmother, who taught her the power of cooking and…

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Two 4 Thursday: King of the Mutants & Super Freak

Two 4 Thursday: King of the Mutants & Super Freak

  Welcome to this week’s Two for Thursday Book Blitz #T4T presented by Month9books/Tantrum Books! Today, we will be showcasing two titles that may tickle your fancy, and we’ll share what readers have to say about these titles! You just might find your next read! This week, #T4T presents to you: King of the Mutants by Samantha Verant and Super Freak by Vanessa Barger! Be sure to enter the giveaway…

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Life without passion is like the sky without the sun, the moon without the stars.

Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir  —Samantha Vérant

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Middle Grade Rewind: King of the Mutants by Samantha Verant

Middle Grade Rewind: King of the Mutants by Samantha Verant

  Welcome to Day 3 of #MGRewindweek! Celebrate Middle Grade reads with Tantrum Books/Month9books. Sharing his memories as an MG reader, we welcome SAMANTHA VERANT, author of the KING OF THE MUTANTS. Come back everyday this week where we’ll feature another author, and be sure to enter the giveaway found at the end of the post!     Can one boy stop a nefarious plot to turn kids into super-mutants?…

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#MGRewind Week - Day 3: Samantha Verant - Guest Post and Giveaway

  Welcome to Day 3 of #MGRewind week!

Celebrate Middle Grade reads with Tantrum Books/Month9books.

Sharing her memories as an MG reader, we welcome

SAMANTHA VERANT, author of the

KING OF THE MUTANTS.

Come back everyday this week where we'll feature another author, and

be sure to enter the giveaway found at the end of the post!

    Can one boy stop a nefarious plot to turn kids into super-mutants?

Maverick Mercury enjoys his life as the sideshow attraction known as “Gator Boy” at Grumbling’s Traveling Circus and Sideshow.

His freakish mutations are the result of some billionaire geneticist’s experiments gone awry. But life as a mutant is about to get worse, as Maverick uncovers a plot to kidnap kids, turns them into super-mutants, and sells their powers to the highest bidder.

Now, Maverick is on a mission to find the mad scientist who may have created him and destroy his sinister plans!

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  Samantha Verant

    As a middle grader, my answer to the above questioned varied daily, depending on whatever book I was reading at the time. Books fueled my dreams and I could be anything I wanted to be – a ballerina, a cowgirl, or a tightrope walker. I could be a pig farmer, the idea inspired by Fern in Charlotte’s Web. Or I could set off on a wild adventure, carried off into the blue sky by seagulls, thanks to James and the Giant Peach. Reading transported me into other worlds, opening up my mind to the possible and, sometimes, the impossible. I imagined myself in stories. Back then, if somebody asked me if I thought I’d work at a window-less office in advertising, I would have given them the stink eye and said, “No, I’m going to work in Oz or Wonderland or Wonka.”

An early reader, I tackled my first picture book on my own at the age of three. It was The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein, and I loved it so much that I climbed (and hugged) many a tree to find one that would love me back, just like the boy. By middle grade, I was hooked on books – the more fantastical, the better. I remember when the teachers passed out the Scholastic Book Catalogues. It was like Christmas and I always ordered as many books my parents would allow. Ghosts stories and adventures and joke books – who could choose just one or two? The school librarian always shook her head when she saw me coming with a stack of books piled high to the sky. “Are you going to read all those in two weeks?” she’d ask.

Indeed, I did. Some I even read twice.

Don’t get me wrong. I was like all of the other kids, too. I played foursquare or double dutch with my friends until the sun went down. I watched TV and went to movies. I took ballet classes and gymnastics. I dove off mailboxes and roofs, neither of which were very good ideas. But I was also a book omnivore. Lights out? Give me ten more minutes, Mom! I’m reading. Mom, of course, always agreed.

Today, writing lets me live out my childhood dreams and fantasies, oftentimes transporting me back in time. On the page, I can be anything I want to be. I can create wild worlds. I can let my imagination run wild. Sorry, I have to go now. An evil scientist is turning kids into super mutants and I need to thwart his plans...because I can.

        Samantha Vérant is a travel addict, a self-professed oenophile, and a determined, if occasionally unconventional, French chef. Over the years, she’s visited many different countries, lived in many places, and worked many jobs— always on the search for the one thing that truly excited her. Then, one day, she found everything she’s been looking for: a passion for the written word and true love. Writing not only enabled her to open her heart, it led her to southwestern France, where she’s now married to a sexy French rocket scientist she met over twenty years ago, a stepmom to two incredible kids, and the adoptive mother to one ridiculously expensive Bengal cat. When she’s not trekking from Provence to the Pyrénées, tasting wine in American-sized glasses, or embracing her inner Julia Child while deliberating what constitutes the perfect boeuf bourguignon, Samantha is making her best effort to relearn those dreaded conjugations.

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I like to write when I feel my heart beating on every word.

Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir  —Samantha Vérant

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I wanted to give you so many pleasures in order for you to keep me deep in your mind.

Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir  —Samantha Vérant