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New Ebooks on Their Way: History of Chambery & French Alps Cookbook
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It’s been a year coming but this summer I’ll be launching two ebooks on my Blog. One will be about the town and history of Chambery, our home town, and the other will be recipes from the French Alps.
The E-Cookbook, entitled French Comfort Food – Recipes of the French Alps, will include 40+ recipes from Savoie (Savoy) and the surrounding French Alps region. When I arrived here I started looking for recipes and cookbooks from this region and I could not find a single cookbook about Savoyard or French Alps food in English. I found one out-of-print book about Savoie in English that had a few Savoyard recipes in it, but that’s where my luck ran out. So after months of searching, I decided I would just have to write one myself. I searched the internet and went to the Savoie bookstores and bought several cookbooks of Savoyard and French Alps recipes. Of course, they were all in French and used the metric measuring system so I had to start translating them into English. I recruited my husband and friend, Jennie of www.ielanguages.com, to help with the translations. A year later we are almost finished and I will be offering the book on my blog as an E-Cookbook download for $12.99. Or you’ll be able to buy both ‘French Comfort Food – Recipes of the French Alps’ along with the Chambery E-book for $20.00 as a lifetime membership package. The membership will include access to the ‘Theatre Voyage’ page which will feature additional videos not published on my public blog.
The motivation behind writing the Chambery Ebook also came out of
necessity. If you look through typical France tourguide books or even guides of the French Alps (which are very few) you’ll find no more than one or two pages about Chambery. While it’s not Chamonix or Lyon, it is a picturesque, charming town worth a visit. The Cathedrals, Old Town and Italian architecture are quite unique. Chambery’s history is also interesting. For instance, I bet you didn’t know that Chambery was the home of the Shroud of Turin for many years and the capital of Savoy when the region was part of Italy. Since it is difficult to find information about the town and surrounding areas, I wrote a 14 page book with photos to give more information that should be both interesting and helpful if you’re planning a visit to the area.
I hope you will support my blog this summer by becoming a member and/or purchasing the E-Cookbook: French Comfort Food – Recipes of the French Alps. Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you find it interesting, entertaining and informative.
