In Desperate to Be a Housewife, my forthcoming memoir, my alter ego, Mona Venture, comes of age during the social/sexual revolutions of the late 1960s and leaves America in search of a way to feel at home in the world. In her quest for understanding, Mona becomes a journalist, bearing witness to historic events that ultimately change her life. Read more…

My short memoir Dear Djeneba appeared in a collection of personal essays on adoption published by Granta Books in 2005 and Random House in 2006. Read more…

The Everyday French Chef is a cookbook-in-progress based on my culinary web site of the same name and on an informal class in French cuisine that I conduct in my Paris kitchen. Read more…