Bohème Cooking by Carrie Solomon with Sara Lieberman

A charming, imaginative portrait of France’s love for vegetables from Carrie Solomon, chef, cookbook author, and longtime Paris resident.

“Carrie Solomon has made French cuisine her own, with a creativity, intelligence and an irresistible casualness that no Frenchy chef would ever dare!” —François-Régis Gaudry, author of Let’s Eat France!

In conversation with Sara Lieberman, followed by a signing.

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From Paris farmers’ markets to the Brittany coast, Carrie Solomon’s vegetable focused cooking is infused with vibrant flavor and whimsical creativity in this fresh, airy cookbook.

When Carrie Solomon first moved to France 20 years ago, it was far from la belle vie for a vegetarian immersing herself in local cuisine. Restaurants promoted nose-to-tail cooking and chefs had yet to start normalizing farm-to-table cuisine. But a vegetable-forward French cuisine—perhaps one that had always been innate to the country’s agricultural abundance—began to gain popularity; chefs started growing ingredients from their own gardens, vegetables increasingly made their way onto brasserie menus, and soon Carrie was experimenting with vegetarian French dishes, both classic less traditional,in her tiny Parisian kitchen. From an easygoing, bohème lifestyle in France, Carrie’s flair for cooking unique vegetarian dishes emerged.

In Bohème Cooking, she takes you on a journey to capture that little piece of Paris, Nice, and beyond in your own kitchen. This is vegetarian cooking that reflects the modern, unfussy garden-forward French cuisine that Carrie has grown to love. It’s herbaceous and bright, with recipes like Pickled Beet Charcuterie and Chickpea Flour Frites for apéro hour with friends. It’s warm and earthy, with a comforting Mushroom and Potato Tartiflette or a French-onion style Celery Root Soup. And it’s the sweet simplicity of French favorites like Souffléd Crepes with Summer Fruit, as well as an easy riff on the classic millefeuille. This utterly charming portrait of France’s love for vegetables will sweep you away into Carrie’s imaginative kitchen.

Carrie Solomon is a cookbook author and Paris based chef. Her latest book, “Bohème Cooking, French Vegetarian Recipes,” (Countryman, 2024) is a celebration of delicious, seasonal produce. Over the past 20 years that Carrie has been in France, she has penned biweekly recipes for French ELLE, created vegetarian menus for French public schools and authored 6 cookbooks for French publishers. Most recently she was part of the Official Hospitality for the Paris Olympics Games 2024, where she created vegetable focused menus at the Roland Garros site. This Fall, Carrie plans to open her own restaurant in Paris' 3rd arrondissement.

Sara Lieberman is a writer, editor, and storyteller whose work has appeared in The New York Times, AFAR, Travel & Leisure, Saveur, The Infatuation, and more. Following nine years in Paris, she returned to New York last February and has resigned herself to a life of subpar butter, overpriced sourdough, and shouting across the table to communicate with her dining companions. You can find her musings on all of the above (and more!) on her popular Substack, Overthinking It. When she’s not wordsmithing, she's practicing yoga, cycling, hiking, eating, thinking about eating, or helping others eat via restaurant recommendations and her catering biz, Cup o’ Cockles.