Cooking for Picasso

For readers of Paula McLain, Nancy Horan, and Melanie Benjamin, this captivating novel is inspired by a little known interlude in the artist s life.The French Riviera, spring 1936 It s off season in the lovely seaside village of Juan les Pins, where seventeen year old Ondine cooks with her mother in the kitchen of their family owned Caf Paradis A mysterious new patron who s slipped out of Paris and is traveling under a different name has made an unusual request to have his lunch served to him at the nearby villa he s secretly rented, where he wishes to remain incognito.Pablo Picasso is at a momentous crossroads in his personal and professional life and for him, art and women are always entwined The spirited Ondine, chafing under her family s authority and nursing a broken heart, is just beginning to discover her own talents and appetites Her encounter with Picasso will continue to affect her life for many decades onward, as the great artist and the talented young chef each pursue their own passions and destiny.New York, present day C line, a Hollywood makeup artist who s come home for the holidays, learns from her mother, Julie, that Grandmother Ondine once cooked for Picasso Prompted by her mother s enigmatic stories and the hint of family secrets yet to be uncovered, C line carries out Julie s wishes and embarks on a voyage to the very town where Ondine and Picasso first met In the lush, heady atmosphere of the C te d Azur, and with the help of several eccentric fellow guests attending a rigorous cooking class at her hotel, C line discovers truths about art, culture, cuisine, and love that enable her to embrace her own future.Featuring an array of both fictional characters and the French Riviera s most famous historical residents, set against the breathtaking scenery of the South of France, Cooking for Picasso is a touching, delectable, and wise story, illuminating the powers of trust, money, art, and creativity in the choices that men and women make, as they seek a path toward love, success, and joie de vivre. Download Cooking for Picasso Author Camille Aubray – kino-fada.fr One of my regrets was not taking an art appreciation class in college So, I have a thing for novels about artists This book alternates between two time periods The first is 1936 in Juan les Pins during the time Picasso was creating his Minotaur series The second is modern day, as the granddaughter of the cook researches the prior period It helps to have access to visuals Thank God for Google and being able to view the paintings in question It s almost a shame novels like this can t includ One of my regrets was not taking an art appreciation class in college So, I have a thing for novels about artists This book alternates between two time periods The first is 1936 in Juan les Pins during the time Picasso was creating his Minotaur series The second is modern d...2.5I want to start my review by saying that I expected to love this book I loved the last series that this author wrote, writing as CA Belmond, starting with A Rather Lovely Inheritance I also have a great fascination with art and artists so I fully expected that this would be the book for me However, sadly it was not The story takes place across the decades, the modern story completely in 2016 and the historic part starting in 1936 until shortly before the main character in 2016 is born Bo 2.5I want to start my review by saying that I expected to love this book I loved the last series that this author wrote, writing as CA Belmond, starting with A Rather Lovely Inheritance I also have a great fascination with art and artists so I fully expected that this would be the book for me However, sadly it was not The story takes place across the decades, the modern story completely in 2016 and the historic part starting in 1936 until shortly before the main character in 2016 is born Both women are weak and not very likeable Celine, the main character in 2016, cannot even stand up to her step siblings and lets them ferry her own mother away step mother to the step siblings with hardly a word and no action Meanwhile she goes to France with her aunt on a trip the sick mother was supposed to take Huh Meanwhile back in the 1930 s, Ondine vacillates between being free spirited as she engages in a relationship if you can call it that wit...Aubrey s painterly writing style awakens the senses to the beauty of the South of France, to the sensuality of a multi flavored meal, to the brush caressing the canvas The reader is seduced by Picasso while being repelled by him at the same time His story includes the effects of war and abusive relationships along with his passion for painting.The author teases the reader with a mystery that, if solved, will be life changing How will betrayal and abuse affect the process Will the solution, i Aubrey s painterly writing style awakens the senses to the beauty of the South of France, to the sensuality of a multi flavored meal, to the brush caressing the canvas The r...I had such a hard time putting this book down although this book is technically fiction It felt so real and informed that you want to believe it with everything you have the author s ability to whisk you away into her own fantasy is uncanny make sure you s...I really wanted to like this book It had all of the elements I like France, art, cooking, and a mystery But overall the book was just ok The storyline was just too unbelievable with way too many coincidences Sigh.This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here This was a wonderful story Told in 2 timelines, we have Ondine in the 1930 s in a lovely seaside town in France She is willful, and not satisfied with what life has handed to her Her fiancee disappears while trying to raise money to marry her, and she slaves at her parents cafe, hoping he ll return, and that her life will be different one day Picasso is in hiding in that town, and she takes him lunch daily and a relationship develops I have to say this The sexual relationship made me feel This was a wonderful story Told in 2 timelines, we have Ondine in the 1930 s in a lovely seaside town in France She is willful, and not satisfied with what life has handed to her Her fiancee disappears while trying to raise money to marry her, and she slaves at her parents cafe, hoping he ll return, and that her life will be different one day Picasso is in hiding in that town, and she takes him lunch daily and a relationship develops I have to say this The sexual relationship made me feel a bit icky Ondine is, after all, only 17 The fact that she was not a virgin is the only thing that made me not throw up w... Cooking for Picasso was a diversion that I enjoyed to take me to a place that I love, namely the beautiful French Riviera as the backdrop of the multigenerational saga of three women At it s heart is the young and spirited 16 year old Ondine helping out in her parents restaurant Caf Paradis where she cycles daily taking one of their spectacular luncheons to a mysterious guest from Paris, an artist who is going by his family name of Ruiz but is the famous Pablo Picasso Ondine begins to prepar Cooking for Picasso was a diversion that I enjoyed to take me to a place that I love, namely the beautiful French Riviera as the backdrop of the multigenerational saga of three women At it s heart is the young and spirited 16 year old Ondine helping out in her parents restaurant Caf Paradis where she cycles daily taking one of their spectacular luncheons to a mysterious guest from Paris, an artist who is going by his family name of Ruiz but is the famous Pablo Picasso Ondine begins to prepare a cookbook with the recipe...This book is a complete imagining of what might have transpired during a short period of Picasso s life It s true that Picasso took some time away from society in Paris in the spring of 1936 He anonymously rented a villa in the French Riviera He was going through some nasty marital problems having a mistress didn t help there and he hadn t been able to paint for months but that spring he was able to paint again Most of Picasso s paintings referenced in the book are real except for one.I ha This book is a complete imagining of what might have transpired during a sh...This is the story about two women of the same family, living in different times and separate continents, who are connected by blood in history The narration alternates between 17 year old Ondine, a cook at her family s caf in a small town on the French Riviera in 1936, and Celine, Ondine s granddaughter, who lives in present day California and learns from her ailing mother that Grandma Ondine once cooked exclusively for the great and notorious Picasso With her mother s health in rapid declin This is the story about two women of the same family, living in different times and separate continents, who are connected by blood in history The narration alternates between 17 year old Ondine, a cook at her family s caf in a small town on the French Riviera in 1936, and Celine, Ondine s granddaughter, who lives in present day California and learns from her ailing mother that Grandma Ondine once cooked exclusively for the great and notorious Picasso With her mother s health in rapid decline, Celine finds herself traveling to the small town of Juan les Pins, France, in hopes to uncover the ...If you are a Francophile and food and art lover, you will adore Cooking for Picasso by Camille Aubray.I received a free audio book from Blogging for Books for this review All opinions, exclamations, gushings and rants are my own.Let me just say that I didn t realize I would receive an audio book and was a bit disappointed when it came in the mail My mood soon changed Since it was the holiday season and I had no time to read, I popped the first CD in the car and I was soon hooked This unabri If you are a Francophile and food and art lover, you will adore Cooking for Picasso by Camille Aubray.I received a free audio book from Blogging for Books for this review All opinions, exclamations, gushings and rants are my own.Let me just say that I didn t realize I would receive an audio book and was a bit disappointed when it came in the mail My mood soon changed Since it was the holiday season and I had no time to read, I popped the first CD in the car and I was soon hooked This unabridged version is 13 1 2 hours long The book is narrated by Mozhan Marno, an actress whom I was familiar with from The Blacklist and House of Cards ...

• English
• 21 February 2018
Camille Aubray
• ebook
• 400 pages
• 0399177671
• Camille Aubray
• Cooking for Picasso