French Milk

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That seems like a low blow to take, but complaining about having no money when you are taking a two-month trip to Paris and eating what look like decadent meals and cookies all the time seems kind of silly, as does complaining about the state of modern art. Par contre, c'est toujours amusant de voir la réaction des Américains face à certaines différences culturelles, notamment - mais pas que - dans l'alimentation.

I liked the drawings of locations, the impressions of people and the descriptions of the food of paris. Au lieu de ça, la jeune femme pas encore diplômée de sa prestigieuse école d'art s'inquiète pour son avenir et passe son temps à râler sur tout et rien (un effort d'adaptation réussi à la culture française! UHT milk gets its name from the ultra-high temperature process it goes through to be sterilized, giving it a shelf life of up to nine months, without even having to be refrigerated before it’s been opened. Through delightful drawings, photographs and musings, twenty-three-year-old Lucy Knisley documents a six-week trip she and her mother took to Paris when each was facing a milestone birthday. Similar national deliveries do not exist in France although fresh milk self-service vending machines have appeared (there are several in Aveyron) and initiatives with farmers delivering fresh milk in small lorries around local villages do exist.I need things to be at least a bit reflective or have at least a bit of adventure to them - this was boring even though the drawing style was good. Because the narrative is not extensive, the schema isn't shown to be rich, rather focusing on stereotypes of Paris. They rented an apartment and spent five weeks walking around, seeing the sites, eating lots of food, in the city of lights. While my kids don’t particularly like the taste of shelf stable milk, I find it’s a very handy thing to have around, especially if you don’t drink a lot of milk or if you’re coming back to town on a Sunday evening and want to have milk for breakfast Monday morning. One gets a good look into Parisian life, but also in the internal journey of finding who one is and who one is not.

Upérisation is from “ultra pasteurisation”, but where pasteurisation, discovered by Louis Pasteur in the 19th century, involves heating for 15-20 seconds at 72-85C then cooling, UHT milk is heated to 140-150C for five seconds maximum before being cooled. With a quirky flat in the fifth arrondissement as their home base, they set out to explore all the city has to offer, watching fireworks over the Eiffel Tower on New Year's Eve, visiting Oscar Wilde's grave, loafing at cafés, and, of course, drinking delicious French milk. French Milk was created when she was still figuring out who she was as an artist, and the work is much less sure of itself in comparison to her later illustrations. Its work is aimed at helping dairy producers and processors to anticipate market developments and build a strong future. The fact that her divorced parents are on good terms, a fact she casually drops in, resonated with me, especially when her father comes to join them for a brief visit during their six-week trip.

but here is why I gave the book one star instead: on the plane ride home to new york, she and her mom watch a dvd with no headphones. The second thing I noticed, besides the differences in her actual drawings, was that there was less of a thematic throughline in this book than in her later ones.