Hot Dogs & Croissants ― The Culinary Misadventures of Two French Women Who Moved to America, Got Fat, Got Skinny (Again), and Mastered Eating Well in the USA with Recipes

When the Saulnier sisters suffer one disappointment too many in their native France, they decide to pack up and try their luck in America. As journalists they have the run of the country, following stories that take them to places where most Americans have never been—from the back roads of Appalachia to an underground village of homeless people in the New York City subway system.

And along the way they dine on:

? Nathan’s Famous hot dogs at the annual hot dog?eating contest in Coney Island
? Snapping turtle soup as prepared by the Native American elders of the Alabama-Coushatta tribe
? Cheesy grits from the Armadillo Diner in Texas
? And burgers, burgers, burgers everywhere!

As the Saulnier sisters adopt the American way of eating, their relationship to food shortly changes. They gain weight—and lose their self-esteem. This new diet is especially hard on Victorine, who temporarily abandons her vegetarianism. It’s not until they meet a couple running an organic farm in upstate New York that they realize how far they’ve strayed from their native food values—and learn that you can eat well in America, too.

Natasha Saulnier is a journalist, author, and translator whose work has appeared in such publications as Liberation, L'Humanite, Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace, Ouest-France, The Independent of London, Progressive Magazine, Marie Claire, Grazia Magazine, and others. She’s also the co-author of Kill, Kill, Kill: Crimes de guerre en Irak (War Crimes in Iraq), published by Editions du Panama 2005, which has been translated into Spanish and Greek. Natasha holds a Master’s degree in English Literature and currently works as a Diplomatic Translator at the United Nations in New York City.

Victorine Saulnier is a photojournalist whose work has appeared in and graced the covers of Marie Claire France, DS, L’Humanite and Dernieres Nouvelles D’Alsace (DNA). She has also worked behind the video camera in television news as producer/editor and audio engineer in Texas and Connecticut, and is a certified Sivananda yoga instructor and private vegetarian chef. She studied video and film production at the Lambeth Institute in London, holds a private pilot’s license and a Bachelor of Science in Ecological Sciences from the University of North London. She is now preparing to launch Terreko, her line of nutritional and organic skin care products.