OK, Now I'm hungry!

It's been a long time since I've been to France, (1989) and like the sterotypical 'ugly American', I hated Paris.  I loved the museums, the scenic train ride through the country sides, and seeing, in person, the things I had only seen in movies and on TV.  The Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, and the like.  However, finances at the time had me staying in a cheap hotel in a bad area, (sharing a bathing area with transvestite hookers) eating bread and Coke-cola for three days because I couldn't figure out how to order anything else, and getting licked in a train station trying to get back to the 'safety' of London.   Yep, travel adventures are definitely for the young!  BUT............  so many people go and love it, I always thought it may have just been the wrong place for me at the wrong time. I haven't gone back, but I'm considering it ....  and now,  I'm hungry!

     I just finished reading Julia Child's autobiography, My Life in France.  She is so enamored of the country, so open to the new experiences she found, and Oh My God, so into learning about food and cooking.  The book takes her from a novice to expert, and us, the readers, right along with her.  French cuisine isn't the totally fussy, over saucy nonsense I had always envisioned it to be.  She writes about learning to plainly roast a chicken with some herbs, and it being a hallmark of a great chef.  She keeps attending classes, meeting chefs and asking questions, and I was hooked.
     I'm thinking that my liking to read biographies, and especially autobiographies have a lot to do with blogging.  Published (book) authors have the benefit of time.  They get to wait and reflect on the outcomes of the actions they are taking.  Blog authors don't have that.  What we read on others blogs is 'real time' for the most part.  We have to follow and keep reading, and keep track.  Maybe we'll see them grow and develop,  maybe we'll see them crash and burn.  Maybe they'll just stop blogging, and we'll never know what happened to them after that point in their lives....  Kinda interesting, don't you think????
    What do you like to read?  and is that taste reflected in what blogs you follow?  (My life long love of sci-fi is not, but my interest in biographies and cookbooks are!).  What do you think of Paris, and the rest of France?  Let me know!  MC