" Light fare for chicks,riddled with erroneous French expressions, but still enjoyable to read. A young baker from Seattle trades job with a French woman for a year, to study at a prestigious Parisian baking school and to work at a couple of boulangeries. A fresh, credible story wends its ways through hackneyed cliches of the American moving to France, finding first isolation and culture abysses but eventually some balance and delicate romance. Best of all, the female character is Christian; she is chaste, prays daily for guidance, reads the Bible, and goes to an anglophone church, deploring the defunct, individualistic faith of her adoptive country. I chanced upon this book right after watching the movie "Julie and Julia", and the freezing (Minnesotan) holidays provided many opportunities to test all these theories about cooking and eating - I even had a close encounter with Betty Crocker and the Pillbury Doughboy at the Mills City Museum in Minneapolis! "
— Laurence, 1/15/2014