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 Il n'y a pas d'age pour seduire
(There is no age to seduce)

by 
JEAN-MICHEL COHEN

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It is quite early morning in Edinburgh right now... I'm enjoying some opera music by France Music together with my morning freshly made coffee with a nice chocolaty thing received on Monday from a nice woman from Germany. I'm enjoying my coffee and trying to gether all my thoughts about this book. This amazing book, I would say.

I've borrowed Cohen's book from Edinburgh Library just before the lockdown, and because I had only 20 minutes to return the old ones and to borrow the new ones, I was very fast in choosing the books. I have to recognise, I've been attracted by the title. I haven't heard about the author before. The title did its job, maybe because i'm getting older?! - I'm 36 now ;) and yes, I've read the very first 2-3 sentences of the book. That was enough to say that I want to read it. 

By the way, the guys who only want to read very "serious" literature, this book is not for you :) 
If you, guys, want a nice book in French, that you could read extremely fast, at the same time it relaxes you and encrease your dopamine, and it is all about the food and how to combine it with our lives, then this is your book. 

Talking about the author... Jean-Michel Cohen is first a nutritioniste, then a writer. But again, it depends how you're looking at the things. I've discovered him as a writer by his very book, above mentioned, so, for me, he's first a writer. I would say a talented one. You know, I'm always telling that if I'm reading a book and it is very easygoing, like the surfer on the waves, then that author was really inspired at the moment of the writing. Here it goes, Cohen WAS inspired when he'd written his book :) and, yeps, if one day, I find other of his books (the artistic ones) I would read them as well. It's been a pleasure. Why not to live it again?!

Talking about the book. The action takes place in France, mostly in Paris. By the way, on the cover, as you can suppose, those are the characters, except one character :)  - the protagonist - the doctor nutritioniste, who I assume is the author, called Docteur Mathieu Sorin...

As mentioned above, this is an easy going book. I've enjoyed it from the start until the very end. By the way, arriving by the middle of the story, I didn't want to leave it :))) So, the whole afternoon I was reading the rest, very curious to see the end... And the end was a happy one. Exception was the Betty - the very old lady. Why? You'll find out when reading the book.

This is my 3rd book of a French writer read in 2021 so far, and I would like to mention the fact that the presence of the food in their novels is like a must :) In Zola's and Muriel's books it was the same. Of course, not as much as in Cohen's book, because this one is written by a nutritioniste. I would like to see what is the situation in the other books of French Literature I'm planning to read for my #bookchallenge2021 and I'll write down in my blog a generalizing conclusion about this fact. So far, it is an aspect very present in French Literature - to mention the food, to write about it, to write how it is eaten, or prepped either critised etc.

In this book, the author is even mentioning a whole bunch of very famous and notorious chefs of France. Thank you, author! :)

Along with ejoying the writing of the book, I've also learned a lot about the food: constructive approaches about eating it, and combining with sport and so on and so forth.

In conclusion, i recommend this book. It is mostly a book that helps you make a break. 

At the moment I'm giving an 8 of 10 to it. <3

Belle lecture, cher(e)s ami(e)s!

Edinburgh

17.02.2021