In this delectable novel, a chef on the rise fuels her passion for cooking while enduring the hardest challenges she\'s ever faced after a debilitating injury.
When she\'s not trekking from Provence to the Pyrénées or embracing her inner Julia Child, Sam is making her best effort to relearn those dreaded conjugations..
She lives in southwestern France, where she\'s married to a sexy French rocket scientist she met in 1989 (but ignored for twenty years), a stepmom to two incredible kids, and the adoptive mother to a ridiculously adorable French cat.
Fake it \'til you make it...right? About author(s): Samantha Vérant is a travel addict, a self-professed oenophile, and a determined, if occasionally unconventional, at-home French chef.
All she has to do is get through life--and the event--tasteless without missing a single step.
She fakes it all: the menus for every meal, the taste of fresh figs, the juicy cherries in the orchard.
Certain that her career will vanish if people find out, she keeps this secret to herself, not even telling Rémi.
She suffers a fall and loses her senses of smell and taste.
After she accepts to cook for the Parisian elite, her world crumbles.
But fate has other plans for Sophie.
When she\'s invited to cook at an exclusive event her culinary idol is attending, she thinks this could be the thing to catapult her to greater heights, maybe even bring her one step closer to her one and only dream of achieving the stars--Michelin stars.
Yet, Sophie still feels something in her heart is missing.
Everything should be perfect.
She and her fiancé, Rémi, are closer than ever, and she\'s even bonding with his daughter Lola.
She\'s running the restaurants of Château de Champvert, the beautiful estate that she inherited from her grandmother.
With her once-destroyed reputation fully recovered and then some, Sophie is making her mark in the culinary world.
Everybody wants a piece of grand chef Sophie Valroux.
In this delectable novel, a chef on the rise fuels her passion for cooking while enduring the hardest challenges she\'s ever faced after a debilitating injury
