This book includes recipes and instructions on how to entertain. The photographs accompanying the recipes are beautiful. The recipes seem simple to follow with shopping lists. Most of the ingredients are easy to get. There are also helpful hints to make your dinner parties memorable. I enjoyed reading this book. I have not yet made any of the recipes. Enjoy

If you are looking for accessible french cooking, this book is for you! Good set of recipes and hosting tips for small dinner parties. I particularly appreciated that the author provided the shopping list and helped you think through all the things you'd need. Are some of the recipes overwhelming? absolutely but the majority should be doable for a home cook. A bonus of this book was the beautiful photography which I felt like really pulled the whole book together.

Delicious and beautiful! Great combo for food. Great combo for cookbook. I love the variety of ingredients included. They’re also not hard to find at the local store which is a must have in a recipe book. This type of gathering is popular so the book goes well with current gather culture too.

I liked this so much, I went out and bought a hardcover copy, I love her approach to food and wine, I love the way she talks about hosting, and I love that just the right amount of personal anecdotes were sprinkled throughout. The cornichon dressing was a hit.

Written by an American who lives in France, thus learning the joie de vivre à la Française, eating good meals and the warmth of sharing your cooking with friends. Modified some recipes so people who doesn't reside in France can also cook same good dishes, but stay true to the basic of cooking, which I appreciate so much. Some recipes I've never seen (or know existed) but the good old ones are gems. French food can means extensive preparation, and all about "terroir" but this one is simplified, so even the amateurs can try some good french food anywhere.

Cooking French food still seems daunting to many but books like this one open the door for many to explore and play around with French cooking and its beautiful culinary landscape. The photography was definitely the highlight to this book but he recipes are just as interesting, I look forward to trying many of these out.

Thank you to NetGalley and publisher for providing me with a copy to read and provide a review.
Paris is what this book reminds me of when reading it and seeing the pictures. The pictures are wonderful. I enjoy the way the book is organized from the starters to the final drinks. It is an excellent book for entertaining friends. Some of it is a bit above my choice. I am not sure what all the recipes will end up looking like.
I myself probably would not use the 125 recipes except the onion soup. I am not sure I can get all the ingredients. Additionally, I believe it would be expensive to make the meals as written in the book. The writing is easy and it is like a friend explaining how to make certain foods that would turn out delicious.
But, it would make a nice table book.
Yummo to the pictures!

I loved this cookbook and the blend of French and American cooking. The photos were beautiful and so many recipes that I am dying to make. I am definitely an honorary Francophile, so i really enjoyed this one with the food, imagery and stories. Thank you to Netgalley and Chronicle Books for the ARC.

I'm really looking forward to cooking from this book. It's beautiful just to page through, and the recipes appear to strike that fine balance between approachable enough to attempt and intriguing enough to want to. The personal notes and instructions peppered throughout make it feel like Ms. Peppler is there to guide you along the way.

Delicious French recipes minus the intimidating factor hence zero anxiety while attempting to cook these gastronomic gold!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for this free digital ARC. This review is made of my own accord and with no monetary compensation whatsoever from the names mentioned above and/or the owners of this ARC.

I really enjoyed reading this cookbook. The photographs were beautiful and makes you feel as if the food is right in front of you. However the recipes are rather complicated and as a working mom, the recipes do not seem as accessible. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to change up their cooking and experience French cooking.

This book is full of mouth watering recipes, all of which are well set out and easy to follow. This is definitely a book I will be referring to again and again

I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. Loved this book! I will be going back to this book many times in the future.

Reading Rebekah Peppler’s beautifully illustrated book A Table is like being invited into a Parisian home for dinner, and of course, drinks. The author gives a full range of recipes typical of French cooking - the easy kind, the sort you’d make when you’ve invited friends over for a casual meal. Using seasonal ingredients, the recipes are quite easy to follow. I tried several with good results. Also appreciated was the broad range of seltzer-based cocktails, a trend I noticed on my own visits to France. Peppler's narration is personal and fun. The reader comes away wanting to know her better.

This was a very nice cookbook! The material is well written and presented in an easy to follow manner. I look forward to trying out several of these recipes.

À Table earns 5/5 Good Friends...Delicious Resource!

Bon appetit! My culinary journey was deliciously enriched by Rebekah Peppler’s “À Table: Recipes for Cooking and Eating the French Way.” The Introduction, “Evening in France has a distinctive kind of magic,” is a marvelous narrative with the author’s perspective and experiences...don’t overlook it. Before one turns on the stove, it is important to review the Modern French Pantry with an abbreviated, alphabetized list of the “building blocks to any meal, the French way.” Each item has valuable background, explanation, or suggestions. Then glean more insights from “Philosophy for Pleasure in Hosting” to prepare for your French dining experience. Oui! Oui! A French meal is a journey flowing from one delicious moment to another, so it is appropriate that this cookbook is organized the same way with Pre-Dinner Drinks and Snacks, During: Supper & Sides, and After: (Sweet) Snacks & Post Dinner Drinks. Everything for the perfect French experience. Some recipes might need an ingredient that isn’t readily available at your local grocer chain, but the directions are easy to follow, and the Notes, stories, insights, are informative and entertaining. Most recipes have a photo of the finished product (a favorite element). My ARC had issues with navigating easily, so i find it hard to evaluate the Kindle version. However, I do love this particular culinary treat and highlighted favorite insights and recipes to make this a resource one I will continue to use. The beautiful photos make the hardbound book a prize.

My personal experience almost had me donning a beret, and the variety is well worth investing in the book. I loved the C&T aperitif and The Definitive Guide to Meat on a Board, Plate, or Slate along with Whole Artichokes with Butter Za’atar; then Mussels with Rosé Heirloom Tomatoes and (Roasted) Radishes with Butter, but Pomme Anna were great potatoes; then to conclude the experience Crème Brûlée and À Côté (Cognac, Orange liqueur, and fresh lemon juice) Mercí!

Cookbook author Rebekah Peppler understands that not everyone can live in Paris, inviting friends over for drinks and snacks, maybe dinner, once a week, so they can have delicious food and refreshing cocktails on the balcony as they gaze out at the Eiffel Tower. Not everyone can live the way she does. But Peppler believes that anyone can share in that spark of French magic, no matter where they live. And that is what À Table is all about.

À Table is divided into 3 parts, Before, During, and After. Before focuses on the before-dinner drinks and snacks. During is a mouth-watering collection of mains and sides, and After is post-dinner drinks and tasty sweet treats. An American now living in Paris, she has access to a cornucopia of exquisite European ingredients. when she can, she explains how we can find them in the States, or she points out how to find a good substitute, but she always emphasizes buying the best you can afford. By that, she doesn’t mean going in to debt to feed your friends and family. She just means to buy the best ingredients for your budget.

Along with recipes for delicious French dishes, there are lots of smart tips to make your time as party host easier. Peppler offers good advice on wines and aperitifs as well as what to do for those who aren’t drinking and how t deal with the problem of ice. She tells you how to stock a French pantry, from butters to salts to chocolates. She takes down the old school rules for dinner parties and suggests how best to enjoy the time at a party, from the planning to the execution to ideas for small takeaways you can send home with your guests if you’re so inclined. From the aperitifs to the digestifs, she helps you keep the drinks flowing, and she tells you how to set up a charcuterie board or an after-dinner cheese board or sweets board.

And then there’s the food. Peppler was born in Wisconsin and lived on both coasts of America before heading over to fulfill her dream of living in France. So while her recipes are for a lot of traditionally French foods, she understands the ingredients and cooking styles of American cooks too, so she adjusts her recipes for the best of both worlds. There is the Croque Madame, the Ratatouille, Cassoulet, and French Onion Soup with Cognac. There is a 7-Hour Leg of Lamb and a 3-hour Tomatoes Oubliees (“Forgotten Tomatoes”). She makes a tarte tatin out of carrots and leeks and makes a wedge salad for hangovers. But her inventive twists on traditional French food makes it modern and mouth-watering. And she includes lots of recipes that can be enjoyed by vegetarians or adapted for vegans, so everyone can have a place at the table.

If the descriptions of this food isn’t enough to draw you in, the photography will. Gorgeous photos of these dishes are interspersed with shots in real French homes and in the markets and streets of Paris, drawing you into the city with all of your senses. À Table is not just about French food; it’s about a lifestyle filled with good friends, delicious food, plenty of good wine and cocktails, and the magic of the City of Lights.

I devoured this cookbook, and I will go back to it for ideas for desserts (that Apricot Crumble looked divine), chicken dishes, and snacks that I want to try out (XL Gougeres? Yes, please!). I love the recipes, the photos, and mostly the attitude of this gorgeous cookbook. Peppler comes at cooking with a definite point of view, an unapologetic love letter to French foods, fresh vegetables, salt, butter, and cheese, and while I can’t pull off this lifestyle myself, I can find things to add to my current life that can add some of that celebratory spirit, that magic of Paris, to make my life a little richer. And for that I can be grateful to Peppler and À Table.

Egalleys for À Table were provided by Chronicle Books through NetGalley, with many thanks.

I received an electronic ARC of this book via NetGalley.

While I'm usually a bit dubious of any cookbook written by an American that is presented as an eye-opening or 'authentic' look at the food culture and cooking of anywhere else, this really was an enjoyable and generally accessible book that comes across as generally sincere. The author doesn't claim to be presenting the "true" way to make the dishes she describes, but merely a way that she likes and finds works for her and her friends.

The recipes in the book are geared especially toward small, informal dinner parties. While there is some emphasis on drinks and on meat dishes, the author makes it abundantly clear that the food and drinks provided at such an event--and really, many aspects of such an event--should be catered to the attendees. The hosting advice is generally brief, but sound--and while I can't quite imagine hosting even informal dinner parties nearly every week, she manages to make it sound fun and almost feasible.

The recipes are adapted for use in an American kitchen, though the author does live in France. While some do call for specialty ingredients that may be difficult to find in an American grocery store, the author frequently suggests alternates.

I have not yet tried any of the recipes from the book, but have noted a few down with the intention of trying them out!

Guys.... I made a tomato tart. This may not sounds intense to anyone else, but I was very nervous. I prepped the dough the night before. I measured the sour cream, I rested the tomatoes so they would dry out a bit. And then I sat in front of the oven for 45 minutes, just waiting for the inevitable moment I would realize I had done something wrong. But the moment never came thanks to Rebekah Peppler's excellent guidance! Thanks to Chronicle Books and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I have been slowly but surely getting more into cooking. I have always adored baking, it was something I did together with my mother and grandmother. But when it comes to cooking, I mostly ended up watching them and my father work their magic. As I haven't seen some of my family and friends in over a year, I figured cooking foods that reminded me of them would be one way to feel closer. But while I love looking at recipes and imagining myself cooking them in elegant kitchens I never actually get into the kitchen. À Table came to the rescue. Inspired by her own experiences living and cooking in France for her friends, Rebekah Peppler presents a whole set of recipes in a no-fuss way that makes them very approachable. At no point did I feel intimidated.

The book is separated into three sections: 'Before', 'During' and 'After'. À Table sets you up for a whole evening with friends and family with recipes ranging from easy to more complex. Each recipe has a personal touch in which Rebekah shares her own inspiration for them, whether it is a visit to a French market or her ex-girlfriend's baking. As I said above, I already tried my hand at the Tomato Tart and also tried out the French Carrot Salad. For some of the bigger dishes I'm waiting for lockdown regulations to soften a little so I can use them to reconnect with friends and family. Rebekah gives all measurements in both the metric and imperial system, which is a major bonus. I can't count the amount of times I have stepped away from amazing looking recipes because I needed to do complex math to figure out what I needed. Rebekah also gives suggestions on how to re-use sauces etc. and lets you know how long you can keep your culinary creations.

Like I said, À Table completely clicked with me. It is actually the first cookbook I'm desperate to own a physical copy of because each section and almost every recipe looks amazing. What also helps is that the photographs in this cookbook are beautiful. There is a clear sense that the food in this book is meant to be enjoyed, that your kitchen after a night will be messy but that it is fine that way, and that cooking and baking is nothing to be afraid of. What can I say, perfect cookbook is perfect! I also highly recommend that you follow Rebekah on Instagram (@rebekahpeppler) because she shares recipes there as well. She has also just started Club Apéro through DEMI, which I haven't yet joined myself but that is only because of finances. Food is a universal love language and À Table helped me become just that little bit more fluent.

I loved À Table, in case that wasn't clear yet. Rebekah Peppler has won herself a lifelong fan with this book and her previous book, Apéritif, is next on my list. If you want an entry into French cuisine or just get a little, but gentle, push into cooking and baking, I wholeheartedly recommend À Table.

American writer Rebekah Peppler shares over 125 French recipes that will make you feel like you are there. Includes classics such as crime brûlée, chicken, chicken Nicoise. This cookbook is for the home cook who loves simple French recipes.