Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy. During les trente glorieuses - a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis - Paris was not only the worlds most delicious, stylish, and exciting tourist destination - it was also the world capital of gastronomic genius and innovation. The Gourmands Way explores the lives and writings of six Americans who chronicled the food and wine of the glorious thirty, paying particular attention to their individual struggles as writers, to their life circumstances, and, ultimately, to their particular genius at sharing awareness of French