The Paris Cooking School: A Novel

The Paris Cooking School is a novel that centers around three women, Sylvie, Gabi, and Kate. Sylvie owns the school, and Kate and Gabi are students there. The book does a beautiful job of describing the many French dishes the students make at the cooking school. Readers will also learn about the private lives of all three women. There is also a bit of a mystery to be solved when the cooking school receives some negative reviews from an anonymous source.

Although several storylines intersect in the novel, including Sylvie’s drama with the married man she sees, Gabi’s possible new relationship with the cheese man, Max, Kate’s love/hate relationship with Arnaud, and the mystery of the bad reviews, I found the story to move along very slowly. My favorite part of the book was the description of the foods the characters experienced. This part of the book interested me the most, from pies and tarts to wine and cheeses.

Overall, the book was engaging but I wished the pace was a little faster. It would have been nice to have less dialogue in the book.