Synopses & Reviews
This “Petit
Pudlo” is a guide to the best hotels, restaurants, cafes, and food shops in more than 200 cities, towns, and villages in the beautiful French region of Alsace.
Alsace-Gilles Pudlowskis home region-is like a fairy tale: half-timbered houses adorned with flowers, gabled roofs, and chimneys topped with storks nests. The famous Wine Road-a major tourist attraction-winds its way through seventy-five miles of storybook villages. Strasbourg is not only Alsaces capital but the heart of United Europe.
Pudlowskis guide profiles hundreds of hotels and restaurants that serve the celebrated regional dishes and white wines for which this region is known, as well as its most charming cafes and typically Alsatian winstubs. In addition, specialty gourmet stores that offer the bounty of this gastronomic province are listed for each town.
About the Author
Gilles Pudlowski is the restaurant critic and journalist for the French weekly magazine
Le Point; a contributor to
Saveurs and
Bon Voyage magazines; cultural commentator and critic; a historian of French regional culinary traditions; and the author of two cookbooks,
France the Beautiful Cookbook and
Great Women Chefs of Europe. He is the author of
Pudlo Paris 2007—2008 and
Pudlo France 2008—2009, both available from The Little Bookroom.
Simon Beaver grew up in the south of England, but moved to Paris nearly thirty years ago. He initially worked as an English teacher, but soon discovered a taste for translation. For two and a half decades now, he has been adapting books, TV and movie scripts, songs, and biographies into English; writing subtitles; and recording voice-overs. Whenever he can, he spends time at his second home on the Normandy coast, or in England or Andalusia.