How to Eat a Small Country: A Family’s Pursuit of Happiness, One Meal at a Time

Book Description

“How to Eat a Small Country shares a few key traits with Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love in particular an infectiously likeable narrator and mouthwatering descriptions of European food. But Finley’s memoir is less precious, more honest, and ultimately more rewarding.” — Boston Globe

A professionally trained cook turned stay-at-home mom, Amy Finley decided on a whim to send in an audition tape for season three of The Next Food Network Star, and the impossible happened: she won. So why did she walk away from it all? A triumphant and endearing tale of family, food, and France, Amy’s story is an inspiring read for women everywhere.

While Amy was hoping to bring American families together with her simple Gourmet Next Door recipes, she ended up separating from her French husband, Greg, who didn’t want to be married to a celebrity. Amy felt betrayed. She was living a dream—or was she? She was becoming famous, cooking for people out there in TV land, in thirty minutes, on a kitchen set . . . instead of cooking and eating with her own family at home.

In a desperate effort to work things out, Amy makes the controversial decision to leave her budding television career behind and move her family to France, where she and Greg lived after they first met and fell in love. How to Eat a Small Country is Amy’s personal story of her rewarding struggle to reunite through the simple, everyday act of cooking and eating together. Meals play a central role in Amy’s new life, from meeting the bunny destined to become their classic Burgundian dinner of lapin à la moutarde to dealing with the aftermath of a bouillabaisse binge. And as she, Greg, and their two young children wend their way through rural France, they gradually reweave the fabric of their family.

At times humorous and heart-wrenching, and always captivating and delicious, How to Eat a Small Country chronicles the food-filled journey that one couple takes to stay together.

中文：

书名：如何吃掉一个小国：一个家庭对幸福的追求，一餐一餐

“如何吃掉一个小国 与伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特的一些关键特征相同 Eat, Pray, Love 尤其是一位令人着迷的讲述者和令人垂涎三尺的欧洲食物描述。但芬利的回忆录不那么珍贵，更诚实，最终也更有价值。

艾米·芬利是一名受过专业培训的厨师，后来成为全职妈妈，她突发奇想，寄了一盘第三季的试镜磁带 下一位美食网络之星， 不可能的事情发生了：她赢了。那么，她为什么要离开这一切呢？艾米的故事是一个关于家庭、食物和法国的成功而可爱的故事，对世界各地的女性来说都是一本鼓舞人心的读物。

当艾米希望用她的简单的 Gourmet Next Door 由于食谱，她最终与她的法国丈夫格雷格分居，格雷格不想嫁给名人。艾米觉得自己被背叛了。她生活在一个梦中–或者说她是吗？她变得出名了，在30分钟内，在厨房里为电视领域的人们做饭。。。而不是在家里和家人一起做饭和吃饭。

在绝望的努力中，艾米做出了一个有争议的决定，放弃了她萌芽中的电视事业，举家搬到了法国，她和格雷格在第一次相遇并坠入爱河后就住在法国。 如何吃掉一个小国 是艾米的个人故事，讲述了她通过简单的日常行为–一起做饭和一起吃饭–为重聚而做出的有益努力。食物在艾米的新生活中扮演着核心角色，从遇到兔子注定成为他们经典的勃艮第晚餐 lapin à la moutarde 去处理一场鱼汤狂欢的余波。当她、格雷格和他们的两个年幼的孩子在法国农村跋涉时，他们逐渐重新编织了他们的家庭结构。

有时幽默而令人心碎，总是迷人而美味， 如何吃掉一个小国 记录了一对夫妇为在一起而进行的充满食物的旅程。