A Year in Provence

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Call Number: 944.9 Ma
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	944.9 Ma	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"Originally published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., London, in 1989"--T.p. verso.

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"Perfect Lunch Weather" submitted by Sara W on July 24, 2012, 8:51am It's hard to resist an author who has a postman they call Marcel the Parcel and who describes a gray, windy afternoon as "perfect lunch weather."

Unfairly, I began to wish partway through this book that I was reading something by Jeffrey Steingarten, my very favorite food writer. This isn't a book about food, it's a book about place and coming to know, understand and adapt to a place.

The characters of the Faustin the neighbor and the plumber and contractor repairing and updating Mayle's Provence home emerge into humorous characters who become intimately involved with his every day life. Mayle paints a detailed portrait of everyday life in their adopted home, from the delicious, perfect restaurant meals to the onslaught of visitors in summer to the insanity-causing Mistral wind in winter.

Overall, I enjoyed it, but it never particularly made me hunger for Provence. Mostly it made me glad I didn't buy an old stone house somewhere and have to deal with installing central heat and updating the plumbing.