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Acquired Tastesby Peter MayleISBN 1560545437 (1-56054-543-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acquired Tastes'Book summary:The author of A Year in Provence takes readers on an around-the-world journey, showing them where to find the best of everything, including caviar, custom-made shoes, and more. Reprint. K. NYT. PW. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. [via]
Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provenceby Lawrence DurrellISBN 155970098X (1-55970-098-X)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provence'Book summary:Provence, where Lawrence Durrell has lived for 30 years, is the motif of this book. It offers the traveller intriguing things they will not find elsewhere and preserves memories and cameos of the Midi and its people. The book aims to capture the essential spirit of the land and those of its warriors, historians, philosophers and poets. The Romans gave form to Provence and Durrell looks at the road systems, the Pont du Gard, the Maison Carree, the arenas, theatres, arches, bridges, memorials and towns. There are chapters on the author's enthusiasms such as bullfighting, the mediaeval Courts of Love and the troubadours, the meals and strange drinks, burial customs, coins and fountains and the favours of Cunegonde. 19 of the author's poem are included. [via]
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Chasing Cezanneby Peter MayleISBN 067978120X (0-679-78120-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Dog's Lifeby Peter Mayle, Edward KorenISBN 0679762671 (0-679-76267-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dogs Life'Book summary:The bestsellling author of A Year in Provence and Hotel Pastis now surveys his territory from a differnt vantage point: the all-fours perspective of his dog, Boy--"a dog whose personality is made up of equal parts Boswell and Dr. Johnson, Mencken and A. A. Milne" (Chicago Sun-Times). Enhanced by 59 splendidly whimsical drawings by Edward Koren.
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The Dream of Scipioby Iain PearsISBN 1573229865 (1-57322-986-5)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream of Scipio'Book summary:"May well be the best historical mystery ever written," proclaimed The Sunday Boston Globe about Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost, while Booklist called its publication "a major literary event." Iain Pears's international bestseller was greeted with front-page reviews ("A crafty, utterly mesmerizing intellectual thriller"-The Washington Post Book World), named a New York Times Notable Book, and hailed as a Book to Remember by the New York Public Library. Now he returns with a greatly anticipated novel that is so brilliantly constructed, the author himself describes it as "a complexity."
The centuries are the fifth (the final days of the Roman Empire); the fourteenth (the years of the Black Death); and the twentieth (World War II). The setting for each is the same-Provence-and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, but what joins them thematically is an ancient text-"The Dream of Scipio"-a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? "Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless," warns one of Pears's characters. [via]More editions of The Dream of Scipio:
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Softcover, Jonathan Cape - The Dream of Scipio: ISBN 0224060163 (0-224-06016-3)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape - The Dream of Scipio: ISBN 1573229865 (1-57322-986-5)
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El Sueno De Escipion / Escipion's Dreamby Iain PearsISBN 8432296562 (84-322-9656-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Encore Provenceby Peter MayleISBN 0679762698 (0-679-76269-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Encore Provence'Book summary:"Provence, again?" one may think, seeing Peter Mayle's latest effort. "Has the man nothing better to do than promote a region that's already overhyped and overpriced? Can't he turn his eye to a place that needs a touristic boost, like Bulgaria?"
However, there are reasons to plunge into the third Provençal book by Englishman Mayle, formerly a Madison Avenue copywriter whose bestselling A Year in Provence made the area a must-see for tourists and helped to quadruple real estate prices there. After four years in Long Island, Mayle has returned to France with continuing adoration.
Mayle discloses a world missed by tourists, be it the questions dry cleaners ask about wine stains or the mysterious murder of a small-town butcher given to making housewives happy with more than his displayed meat. He also incorporates guide-like tips--listing markets, cheese makers, and the essential how-tos of perfume sniffing and olive-oil tasting. What's more, this book gives a peek into the life of a bestselling writer. The role is not always an enviable one.
Mayle no longer fits into life in America--the vocabulary alone is enough to throw him off--yet in Provence, he is regarded as little more than a moneyed foreigner. Speared by the British press, he laments, "One of my crimes is to have encouraged people to visit the region ... far too many people ... and people of the wrong sort," an accusation that he denies.
And Mayle comes off as positively defensive in his attack of former New York Times food critic Ruth Reichl, who wrote that she was disappointed in the region. The title alone of chapter 3 hints at the sarcastic stabbings to follow: "New York Times Restaurant Critic Makes Astonishing Discovery: Provence Never Existed." Page after page, he roasts Reichl on the spit, creating a hissing Ruth Rotisserie that's most unbecoming from someone of his stature.
What most causes him to sputter is Reichl's admission that she "had been dreaming of a Provence that never existed."
"Where had I been living all these years?" writes the man who's helped to perpetrate the illusion of a land that is nothing but lavender fields, sunflowers swaying in the breeze, and fascinating characters every millimeter. "The Provence that Daudet, Giono, Ford Madox Ford, Lawrence Durrell and M.F.K. Fisher knew and wrote about--the Provence that I know--doesn't exist.... It's a sunny figment of our imagination, a romanticized fantasy."
Maybe. Having recently visited Provence, I agree with Reichl's critical assessment. Therein lies Mayle's ultimate charm. Crack open a bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape, delve into Encore Provence, and voilà: it may be better than actually being there. --Melissa Rossi [via]
Feasts of Provenceby Robert CarrierISBN 0847816613 (0-8478-1661-3)
Hardcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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The Fly-Trufflerby Gustaf SobinISBN 0393321797 (0-393-32179-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Food and Flavours of Haute Provenceby Georgeanne Brennan, Jeffrey FisherISBN 0811812359 (0-8118-1235-9)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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French Lessons: Adventures With Knife, Fork, and Corkscrewby Peter MayleISBN 0375705619 (0-375-70561-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Lessons: Adventures With Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew'Book summary:Peter Mayle has done it again--but differently. Travelling this time beyond his adopted Provence throughout France, the food and travel writer has produced French Lessons, a celebration of many of that country's gastronomic joys. Whether pursuing La Foire de Fromages, the annual cheese fair at Livarot; a Burgundian marathon offering runners Médoc refreshment; or a village truffle mass that concludes with a heady dégustation of the newly blessed tuber, Mayle takes his readers in hand and shows all. Wide-eyed yet knowing, ever affable but with a touch of mischief, he's an ideal companion, the best possible narrator of his lively food adventures.
Author of the bestselling A Year in Provence, Mayle's gastronomic baptism occurs when, as a 19-year-old, he dines for the first time in France. "At the first mouthful of French bread and French butter," he writes, "my taste buds, dormant until then, went into spasm." The paroxysm leads to serious food-and-wine perambulations--and, finally, to chapters including "The Thigh-Taster of Vitel" (a frog-eating fete); "Slow Food" (snail love in Martigny les Bains) and "The Guided Stomach" (an investigation of the Michelin Guide restaurant inspection), among others. Readers are also present for a debate on the secret of the perfect omelette; a search for the best possible chicken in Bourg-en-Bresse; and a visit to a St. Tropez restaurant notable for its scantily clad habitués. Those familiar with Mayle's work, and those yet to discover it, are in for a treat. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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French Riviera: English Edition-Country, City and Regional GuidesISBN 2060133009 (2-06-013300-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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Gardens of Provence and the Cote D'Azur: Jardins De Provence Et De La Cote D'Azur = Garten in Der Provence Und an Der Cote D'Azurby Marie-Francoise Valery, Angelika Taschen, Deidi Von SchaewenISBN 3822870900 (3-8228-7090-0)
Hardcover, Taschen
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A Good Yearby Peter MayleISBN 0307277755 (0-307-27775-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Good Year'Book summary:The writer with a claim to being the worlds foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intoxicating novel about the business and pleasure of wine, set in his beloved Provence. Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncles vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it? Enter a beguiling Californian who knows more about wine than Max doesand may have a better claim to the estate. Fizzy with intrigue, bursting with local color and savor, A Good Year is Mayle at his most entertaining. [via]
Hotel Pastisby Peter MayleISBN 0679751114 (0-679-75111-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Jean De Floretteby Marcel PagnolISBN 2877060543 (2-87706-054-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Joy of Man's Desiringby Jean Giono, Katherine Allen ClarkeISBN 1582430446 (1-58243-044-6)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joy of Man's Desiring'Book summary:An epic tale of the Provence countryside.
"In Giono's work is what every sensitive, full-blooded individual ought to be able to recognize at once as `the song of the world.'...The philosophy behind this symphonic production has no name: its function is to liberate, to keep open all the sluices of the soul, to encourage speculation, adventure, and passionate worship." -Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
"Peasant civilization possesses as a gift human qualities which philosophical civilizations spend centuries first defining, then desiring, and finally losing." -Jean Giono
A true forebear of magical realism, Giono creates men and women rooted in the folklore of provincial France. With a poet's grace and imagination, he weaves a grand story of the earth and of passion, of animals and weather, of the miracles we now call the laws of nature. [via]
La Gloire De Mon Pereby PagnolISBN 2877060500 (2-87706-050-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Letters from My Windmillby Alphonse DaudetISBN 0140443347 (0-14-044334-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Lettres De Mon Moulinby Alphonse DaudetISBN 207040899X (2-07-040899-X)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lettres De Mon Moulin'Book summary:This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. [via]
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The Magic of Provence: Pleasures of Southern Franceby Yvone LenardISBN 0767906829 (0-7679-0682-9)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Manon Des Sourcesby Marcel PagnolISBN 287706512X (2-87706-512-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Michelin Green Guide - Provenceby Michelin StaffISBN 2060000297 (2-06-000029-7)
Softcover, Langenscheidt Pub Inc
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The Most Beautiful Country Towns of Provenceby Alex Ramsay, Helena AttleeISBN 0500510873 (0-500-51087-3)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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My Father's Glory ; And, My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhoodby Marcel PagnolISBN 0865472564 (0-86547-256-4)
Hardcover, North Point Press
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My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhoodby Marcel Pagnol, Rita Barisse, Alice WatersISBN 0865472572 (0-86547-257-2)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhood'Book summary:Bathed in the warm clarity of the summer sun in Provence, Marcel Pagnol's childhood memories celebrate a time of rare beauty and delight.Called by Jean Renoir "the leading film artist of his age," Pagnol is best known for such films as The Baker's Wife, Harvest, Fanny, and Topaze, as well as the screen adaptations of his novels Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs (North Point, 1988). But he never forgot the magic of his Provencal childhood, and when he set his memories to paper late in life the result was a great new success. My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle appeared on the scene like a fresh breeze, captivating readers with its sweet enchantments. Pagnol recalls his days hunting and fishing in the hill country, his jaunts about Marseilles, his schoolboy diversions, and above all his family: his anticlerical father and sanctimonious uncle, his mild and beautiful mother, and many others. This bright and lively book sparkles with the charm and magic that were Marcel Pagnol's own.[via]More editions of My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhood:
The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love and Olive Oil in Southern Franceby Carol DrinkwaterISBN 1585671061 (1-58567-106-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Olive Seasonby Carol Drinkwater, Kyril BonfiglioliISBN 1585675466 (1-58567-546-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Olive Season'Book summary:The Olive Farm told the lyrical tale of her real-life romance with partner Michel and an abandoned Provençal olive farm they fell in love with and bought-a double love story, recounting with wit, warmth, and spectacular detail the couple's attempts to bring their dreams to life. The Olive Season begins with the realization of another dream, a tropical island wedding. Returning to France, the couple finds there is much hope-as well as work-to greet them. Pregnant and often unassisted, Carol is forced to negotiate the hazards the farm work on her own. As the harvest season approaches, dramatic tensions cast dark shadows over the olive farm. With all the magnificent warmth and texture of an impressionist painting, The Olive Season entices readers into Carol Drinkwater's vibrant Mediterranean world. [via]
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The Olive Season: Amour, A New Life, and Olives, Too...!by Carol DrinkwaterISBN 1585672351 (1-58567-235-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Patricia Wells at Home in Provence: Recipes Inspired by Her Farmhouse in Franceby Patricia Wells, Robert FresonISBN 0684863286 (0-684-86328-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Patricia Wells at Home in Provence: Recipes Inspired by Her Farmhouse in France'Book summary:Tomato clafoutis, herb-cured filet of beef Carpaccio, garlic family soup, Catalan tuna daube: these and 171 other recipes pour off the pages of this sumptuous coffee-table cookbook by the author of Bistro Cooking and Simply French. Wells concentrates on coaxing the utmost flavor out of simple, fresh food, and her French recipes are not all swimming in cream, oils, and fats: the filet, for example, profits not from a heavy sauce but from being wrapped for two days in tarragon, parsley, basil, thyme, and salt. In a couple of places Wells even commits the heresy, for a French-style chef, of switching a red wine used to simmer meat to a white wine. [via]
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Perfume from Provenceby Winifred Fortescue, Ernest H. ShepardISBN 0688125824 (0-688-12582-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Provenceby Knopf Guides StaffISBN 0679750665 (0-679-75066-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Provence A-Zby Peter MayleISBN 1400044421 (1-4000-4442-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Provence and the Cote D'Azurby Kate BaillieISBN 1858280230 (1-85828-023-0)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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Provence and the Cote D'Azur: The Rough Guideby Kate BaillieISBN 185828127X (1-85828-127-X)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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Provence : Art, Architecture, Landscapeby Koenemann Inc. StaffISBN 3829027141 (3-8290-2714-1)
Hardcover, Konemann
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Provence Beautiful Cookbookby Harper CollinsISBN 0067575986 (0-06-757598-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Provence Cookbookby Patricia WellsISBN 0060507829 (0-06-050782-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Provence Cookbook'Book summary:No matter where you live, or how gloomy it may be outside, Patricia Wells will brighten your kitchen with the sunny flavors of France's bountiful south with The Provence Cookbook. A French-food expert and longtime Provence resident, Patricia offers readers an intimate guide to the culinary treasures of this sun-drenched landscape and dishes that will transport you and your guests with every flavorful bite.
The Provence Cookbook's 175 enticing recipes reflect Patricia's long and close ties with the farmers and purveyors who provide her and her neighbors in Provence with a kaleidoscope of high-quality foods. Their year-round bounty is the inspiration for these exciting, healthful Mediterranean-French dishes,which Patricia shares with home cooks everywhere. Over the past twenty years, it is Patricia who has often been the student, learning Provencal ways and regional recipes directly from the locals. With The Provence Cookbook, her readers benefit from this rich inheritance, as she passes along such recipes as My Vegetable Man's Asparagus Flan, or Maussane Potter's Spaghetti.
Along side authentic and flavorful dishes for every course from hors d'oeuvre to dessert, as wellas pantry staples, The Provence Cookbook features eighty-eight of Patricia's artful black-and-white photographs of Provence's farmers, shopkeepers, and delightful products. More than a cookbook, this is also a complete guide and handbook to Provencal dining, with vendor profiles, restaurant and food shop recommendations and contact information, and twelve tempting menus -- delight in An August Dinner at Sunset or perhaps A Winter Truffle Feast.
Whether you are a home cook, a traveler, or an armchair adventurer, enjoy Provence as the locals do, with Patricia Wells and The Provence Cookbook as your guides.
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Provence Interiorsby Lisa Lovatt-SmithISBN 3822834769 (3-8228-3476-9)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Provence Interiors =Interieurs De Provence: Interieurs De Provenceby Angelika Muthesius, Lisa Lovatt-SmithISBN 3822881767 (3-8228-8176-7)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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Provence Styleby TaschenISBN 3822816396 (3-8228-1639-6)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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Provence : The Beautiful Cookbookby Peter Johnson, Michael Freeman, Richard Olney, Jacques GantieISBN 0002551543 (0-00-255154-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Provence : The Beautiful Cookbook'Book summary:Provence is loved for its sunlit beauty and earthy, tantalizing cuisine. Both are celebrated in Provence the Beautiful Cookbook, an oversized (more than two feet tall!) picture and cookbook of breathtaking color photos and authentic regional recipes. The 270 recipes, compiled and written by award-winning food book author Richard Olney, include soups and starters; seafood, meat, game, and poultry dishes; vegetable and grain specialties; and simple but luscious desserts. Readers seeking an armchair tour of the region, singularly depicted, and the chance to see and reproduce its dishes, will delight in the book, which would also make a welcome gift.
Beginning with an introduction to the land and its cooking, the book then weaves short essays about the Provençal regions with recipes arranged by courses. There are exemplary versions of bouillabaisse and bourride (the creamy, garlic-infused fish chowder), estouffade (braised beef, here with olives and mushrooms), daubs (stews), vegetable-filled omelets, and tians (savory gratins). Less familiar treasures include a mixed herb pasta from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, porgy with crab sauce from the Var, a braised stuffed lamb shoulder from Vaucluse, zucchini and rice gratin from the Alpes Maritimes, and dried figs in thyme and red wine syrup, also from the Var. The recipes reflect Olney's unerring palate and dedication to tradition; some cooks may find certain dishes beyond their reach, but all will discover approachable recipes that are easily made. Wine information and a glossary conclude the portrait of Provence and its table--a feast for the eye and palate alike. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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Provence: The Collected Travelerby Barrie KerperISBN 0609806785 (0-609-80678-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Rick Steves' 2004 Provence & the French Rivieraby Rick StevesISBN 1566917379 (1-56691-737-9)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub
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Rick Steves' 2006 Provence &The French Rivieraby Steve Smith, Rick StevesISBN 1566917883 (1-56691-788-3)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub
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Rick Steves' 2007 Provence And the French Rivieraby Steve Smith, Rick StevesISBN 1566918200 (1-56691-820-0)
Softcover, Avalon Travel Pub
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The Rough Guide to Provence and the Cote Dazurby Kate Baillie, Kate Baille, Rachel Kaberry, Danny Aeberhard, Rachael KaberryISBN 1858284201 (1-85828-420-1)
Softcover, Rough Guides
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Savoring Provence: Recipes and Reflections on Provencal Cookingby Chuck Williams, Diane Holuigue, Williams SonomaISBN 0848725824 (0-8487-2582-4)
Hardcover, Oxmoor House
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Southern France: An Oxford Archaeological Guideby Henry CleereISBN 0192880063 (0-19-288006-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Taste of Provenceby Francie JouaninISBN 3829080247 (3-8290-8024-7)
Softcover, Konemann
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taste of Provence'Book summary:With its practical format, this culinary guide presents exquisite regional specialities, first class restaurants, and selected vineyards. A feast for both the eyes and the palate, this volume allows the readers to experience the culture of the region and its typical dishes, which are deeply rooted in the Provencal landscape. [via]
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A Taste of Provence: Classic Recipes from the South of Franceby Leslie ForbesISBN 087701826X (0-87701-826-X)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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Toujours Provenceby Peter MayleISBN 1560542624 (1-56054-262-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Softcover, Random House Inc - Toujours Provence: ISBN 0241128560 (0-241-12856-0)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton - Toujours Provence: ISBN 0679402535 (0-679-40253-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Toujours Provence: ISBN 1560542624 (1-56054-262-4)
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Two Towns in Provenceby M. F. K. FisherISBN 0844667463 (0-8446-6746-3)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Two Towns in Provence: Map of Another Town and a Considerable Townby M. F. K. FisherISBN 0394716310 (0-394-71631-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Views from a French Farmhouseby Julian MoreISBN 0943955556 (0-943955-55-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Wonderful Food of Provenceby Jean-Noel Escudier, Peta FullerISBN 0060971312 (0-06-097131-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Year in Provenceby Peter Mayle, Judith ClancyISBN 0679731148 (0-679-73114-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Year in Provence'Book summary:Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provençal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Côtes-du-Rhône and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and wicked candor in A Year in Provence, the chronicle of his own foray into Provençal domesticity.
Beginning, appropriately enough, on New Year's Day with a divine luncheon in a quaint restaurant, Mayle sets the scene and pits his British sensibilities against it. "We had talked about it during the long gray winters and the damp green summers," he writes, "looked with an addict's longing at photographs of village markets and vineyards, dreamed of being woken up by the sun slanting through the bedroom window." He describes in loving detail the charming, 200-year-old farmhouse at the base of the Lubéron Mountains, its thick stone walls and well-tended vines, its wine cave and wells, its shade trees and swimming pool--its lack of central heating. Indeed, not 10 pages into the book, reality comes crashing into conflict with the idyll when the Mistral, that frigid wind that ravages the Rhône valley in winter, cracks the pipes, rips tiles from the roof, and tears a window from its hinges. And that's just January.
In prose that skips along lightly, Mayle records the highlights of each month, from the aberration of snow in February and the algae-filled swimming pool of March through the tourist invasions and unpredictable renovations of the summer months to a quiet Christmas alone. Throughout the book, he paints colorful portraits of his neighbors, the Provençaux grocers and butchers and farmers who amuse, confuse, and befuddle him at every turn. A Year in Provence is part memoir, part homeowner's manual, part travelogue, and all charming fun. --L.A. Smith [via]
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Gloire de Mon Pereby Marcel PagnolISBN 2877065073 (2-87706-507-3)
Softcover, Flammarion et Cie
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Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provenceby Peter MayleISBN 202030743X (2-02-030743-X)
Softcover, Editions du Seuil
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Jean De Floretteby Not AvailableISBN 2877065111 (2-87706-511-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Jean de Florette/ Manon des sourcesby Marcel Pagnol, Jacques FerrandezISBN 2203397071 (2-203-39707-1)
Softcover, Casterman Editions
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Manon des Sourcesby Marcel PagnolISBN 2877060551 (2-87706-055-1)
Softcover, Flammarion et Cie
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Provence Green Guide: Franceby Michelin Travel Publications StaffISBN 2060362059 (2-06-036205-9)
Hardcover, Michelin Travel Publications
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Provence Toujoursby Peter MayleISBN 2020282828 (2-02-028282-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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UN Annee En Provenceby MayleISBN 2020237040 (2-02-023704-0)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Drei Jahrtausende Provence: Vorzeit Und Antike, Mittelalter Und Neuzeitby Ingeborg TetzlaffISBN 3770117174 (3-7701-1717-4)
Hardcover, DuMont
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Wie Aus Galliern Romer Wurden: Leben Im Romischen Reichby Helga BotermannISBN 3608940480 (3-608-94048-0)
Hardcover, Klett-Cotta
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Provence Interiors/Provence Interiorsby Lisa Lovatt-SmithISBN 3822834777 (3-8228-3477-7)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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