The Little Paris Kitchen’ by Rachel Khoo. Flicking through this book again, I was surprised that I couldn’t find any, as I would have almost expected it for a diary style layout. The front and back inside cover are decorated with a wallpaper of naive coloured pencil drawings of foods and utensils with their French names below them – and the all important Eiffel Tower has been sketched onto page 3 to make clear what this is all about: French cooking. The books other pages play with fonts but not with illustrations at all, which I find strange initially as it would really suit this diary/photo album style, but then I realize that this book isn’t solely interested in recipes but also Rachel Kooh herself. Rachel having picnic with friends, Rachel drinking a glass of wine at the bar, Rachel buying veg at the market – This is the glamorization of a tv chef at it’s finest!
