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Contributor to The Guardian · The Times · National Geographic Traveller · BBC Travel · France Magazine (Editor 2006-2016)

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Expert recommendations based on more than twenty years of personal experience — from hidden restaurants to the perfect chambre d’hôte.

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Restaurants, markets, producers, regional dishes, wines and where to eat and drink brilliantly across France — from Michelin-starred tables to the perfect roadside auberge.

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Hotels, chambres d’hôtes, gîtes and villas personally recommended across every region — for every style, budget and kind of trip.

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Regional guides covering the France everyone knows and the France almost nobody has discovered — from Finistère and Cantal to Normandy, the Loire and beyond.

By Carolyn Boyd · Profile Books

Amuse Bouche

How to Eat Your Way Around France

Twenty years of eating, travelling and writing about France distilled into 200 vignettes — food history, travel, personal anecdote and recipe. The book for anyone who wants to understand France through what it eats.

Amuse Bouche: How to Eat Your Way Around France by Carolyn Boyd, published by Profile Books