Recipes keyed to the topic generally discussed in a chapter are found at its end and there is a handy index to all of them at the conclusion. Her descriptions of raising their youngster, coping with the eccentricities of life in a small town, making friends and wondering what life holds for her and her family are intimate and chatty. The trials and tribulations of setting this up are found in the latter part of this interesting account of the rural French way of life. Now comes Elizabeth Bard, an American writer who has fashioned a combination memoir of life in storied Provence in southern France with a generous helping of recipes using mostly ingredients one would find in that part of the world.īard and her husband, Gwendal, tired of the life in Paris where they lived for 10 years, decided to relocate 600 kilometres to the southern village of Cereste with their infant son.Īfter getting acclimatized and used to a more sedentary French life than they experienced in Paris, they embarked on a business venture - an ice cream shop. For many years, the American chef was a leading authority on the art of preparing French cuisine. Picnic in Provence: A Memoir With Recipesīy Elizabeth Bard (Little, Brown and Company, 384 pages, $29 hardcover)
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