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L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home QUOTES

L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home QUOTES

1 " You never feel more American than when you leave America. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

2 " Spécial" is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone) is...peculiar. The use of it is one of the rare times that the French are noncommittal about their opinions. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

3 " Speciàl" is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone is...peculiar. The use of it is one of the rare times that the French are noncommittal about their opinion. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

4 " apocopes "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

5 " disaster, a word that comes from the French des astres, or “from the stars. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

6 " Golden Delicious apples reliably hold their shape when cooked and don’t exude too much juice, which results in a deeply caramelized round of apples on top of the buttery crust. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

7 " Americans go into situations expecting things to go well. When they don’t, we have meltdowns. The French go into situations expecting things not to go in their favor, so they’re prepared when they don’t. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

8 " Telling someone in France that they did something that was not correct is an affront to their honor, almost as severe as being told they’re mal élevé, or “badly raised. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

9 " lettres recommandées (registered letters) "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

10 " a handheld hose. I couldn’t find in my dictionnaire the word for the specific kind of hose my European partner was used to, but Claude knew the right term because, as he told me, he had several Italian clients: a douchette anale. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

11 " I learned that a pommeau à douche is a showerhead. The tuyau à douche is the shower hose that’s attached with a crochet (holder) to the mur en faïence (a tile wall, not to be confused with a mûre en faïence, which would be a ceramic blackberry) using les vis cruciformes (screws). It’s a lot to remember when leafing through catalogs of French plumbing fixtures, but harder when you’re in a hardware store and the perplexed salesperson doesn’t understand why you’d want to attach a showerhead to a ceramic berry. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

12 " Boulevard Richard Lenoir is famous for its outdoor market that starts at the Bastille and radiates from there, "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

13 " street is also known for its many hardware, cabinetry, plumbing, and flooring stores; "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

14 " Cedeo, a plumbing-supply store. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

15 " Gariguette strawberries, "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

16 " Charantais melons "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

17 " branché (trendy) "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

18 " Une deuxième couche” was to make sure they gave another coat of paint to a wall "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

19 " what the French call une soupe au lait: a once-calm pot of milk, warmed up on the stovetop, that was threatening to boil over. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

20 " the Marché d’Aligre, which I think is the most exciting market in Paris. "

― David Lebovitz , L'Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home