This article is part of our airport food survival guide, which includes tips and tricks—even a hot take or two—that challenge the notion that airport meals are always dull, overpriced, and tasteless.
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Ever dreamed of swapping your current life for a brand new one in Paris? That’s what Jane Bertch did, who chronicles her own journey, including opening a French cooking school, in her new memoir The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time. Lale chats with Jane about the lessons she’s learned (culinary and otherwise) from her years spent in the French capital, her tips for shopping the city’s many boulangeries and fromageries, and all the characters she’s met along the way.
Lale Arikoglu: Hi there, I'm Lale Arikoglu. In this episode of Women Who Travel, I'm talking to a guest who left Chicago to work in Paris as a banker, and then ended up establishing a cooking school back in 2009. She's Jane Bertch, and she's just written the memoir It's The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time.
I was in Paris six weeks ago. I hadn't been in 10 years. It was so wonderful to be back in that city. I feel like every time I'm there it's this wonderful combination of familiarity because some of it just never changes, but also a lot was new. I would love to know what it was like for you when you moved there. Was there a culture shock?
Jane Bertch: It was the end of 2005, beginning of 2006, and there absolutely was a culture shock. I think when you arrive in a city to live and to try to function and to set up a life versus organizing cultural events and going to restaurants, it's a very, very different story.
LA: Why did you move there? What were those early months like?
JB: I moved here because I was working for a bank and an opportunity came up to move to Paris, which I'd swore I would not ever come back to Paris because my first visit was a little unsatisfactory. I felt like I stuck out like a sore thumb. I couldn't understand the fascination with this city.
LA: Wait, elaborate a little bit more because I've heard that before. Paris is a hard city to crack.
JB: Yes, yes. There's a very difficult language barrier. People speak a lot of English now. When I was here, I feel like that's a big change. When I first moved here, finding people to speak English was challenging. Trying to speak French with my very, very poor pidgin French, it did not always go down well.
LA: Where were you living?
JB: When I first arrived, I was living in the 16th Arrondissement, and that was the place that anyone working in banking, there's a lot of cultural undertones in this city about where you live or where you went to school and anybody working in banking would likely have lived in the 16th Arrondissement, which was either filled with bankers or older women and their dogs.
This article is part of our airport food survival guide, which includes tips and tricks—even a hot take or two—that challenge the notion that airport meals are always dull, overpriced, and tasteless.
This article is part of our airport food survival guide, which includes tips and tricks—even a hot take or two—that challenge the notion that airport meals are always dull, overpriced, and tasteless.
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