Provence A-Z: A Francophile's Essential Handbook (Vintage Departures)

Provence A-Z: A Francophile's Essential Handbook (Vintage Departures)
by Peter Mayle

Provence A-Z: A Francophile's Essential Handbook (Vintage Departures)
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Author: Peter Mayle
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-02
ISBN: 1400095697
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Vintage

Summary of Provence A-Z: A Francophile's Essential Handbook (Vintage Departures)

The ultimate ?dictionary? for lovers of Provence: Peter Mayle's personal selection of the foods, customs and words he finds most fascinating, curious, delicious, or just plain fun.

Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. In more than 170 entries, Peter Mayle?bestselling author of A Year in Provence?writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and zingue-zingue-zoun (in the local patois, a word meant to describe the sound of a violin). And, of course, he writes about food and drink: vin rosé, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion.

Provence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayle's ever-growing audience and the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.

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