Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A discussion between two long-time French residents and culinary experts, Rosa Jackson and Jane Bertch about their respective memoirs, "Niçoise" and "The French Ingredient."
Filmed on 19/11/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
After working as a food journalist, Rosa Jackson moved to Paris in 1995 and began the city’s first company to offer tours of Parisian food markets. She has lived in Nice since 2004, choosing the city for its unique culinary culture. Her new cookbook, "Niçoise", explores the beauty and bounty of food between the Alps and the Mediterranean.
Having spent more than a decade working in the financial services industry, including several years in the Paris office, Jane Bertch decided to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. In 2009 she founded one of the largest nonprofessional culinary schools in France, La Cuisine Paris. Her new memoir, "The French Ingredient", documents her audacity, as an American, to begin a cooking school in Paris.
This conversation was moderated by food and travel writer, Alec Lobrano.
About the speakers:
Rosa Jackson has run her cooking school Les Petits Farcis in Nice, France, for over twenty years. A former Paris restaurant critic, she has written about French food for international publications, including the Financial Times and Food & Wine, and also runs the Paris food tour company Edible Paris.
Jane Bertch has spent more than two decades living and working in Europe. In 2009, she started La Cuisine Paris, which has become the largest nonprofessional culinary school in France. She holds a BA in English, an MA in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois, and an executive MA from the French business school INSEAD. "The French Ingredient" is her first book.
Alexander Lobrano lived in Boston, New York and London before moving to Paris in 1986. As a food and travel writer, he has worked as Paris correspondent for Travel & Leisure, Departures Magazine and Gourmet Magazine, and he is the author of "Hungry for Paris", "Hungry for France" and "My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris". He is currently working on second volume of memoir tentatively entitled "My Second French Life", and he contributes regularly to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, France Today and other publications and is a Contributing Writer at Airmail News.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
A discussion between two long-time French residents and culinary experts, Rosa Jackson and Jane Bertch about their respective memoirs, "Niçoise" and "The French Ingredient."
Filmed on 19/11/2024 with a live audience both in person and on Zoom.
After working as a food journalist, Rosa Jackson moved to Paris in 1995 and began the city’s first company to offer tours of Parisian food markets. She has lived in Nice since 2004, choosing the city for its unique culinary culture. Her new cookbook, "Niçoise", explores the beauty and bounty of food between the Alps and the Mediterranean.
Having spent more than a decade working in the financial services industry, including several years in the Paris office, Jane Bertch decided to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. In 2009 she founded one of the largest nonprofessional culinary schools in France, La Cuisine Paris. Her new memoir, "The French Ingredient", documents her audacity, as an American, to begin a cooking school in Paris.
This conversation was moderated by food and travel writer, Alec Lobrano.
About the speakers:
Rosa Jackson has run her cooking school Les Petits Farcis in Nice, France, for over twenty years. A former Paris restaurant critic, she has written about French food for international publications, including the Financial Times and Food & Wine, and also runs the Paris food tour company Edible Paris.
Jane Bertch has spent more than two decades living and working in Europe. In 2009, she started La Cuisine Paris, which has become the largest nonprofessional culinary school in France. She holds a BA in English, an MA in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois, and an executive MA from the French business school INSEAD. "The French Ingredient" is her first book.
Alexander Lobrano lived in Boston, New York and London before moving to Paris in 1986. As a food and travel writer, he has worked as Paris correspondent for Travel & Leisure, Departures Magazine and Gourmet Magazine, and he is the author of "Hungry for Paris", "Hungry for France" and "My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris". He is currently working on second volume of memoir tentatively entitled "My Second French Life", and he contributes regularly to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, France Today and other publications and is a Contributing Writer at Airmail News.
Evenings with an Author is generously sponsored by GRoW @ Annenberg.
