A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Brennan, Georgeanne

ISBN 10: 081185213X / ISBN 13: 9780811852135

Published by Chronicle Books, 2007

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Signed "My Dearest Mom! Ethel" by author's daughter who features prominently in the narrative. Both book and dust jacket in fine condition. ISBN 081185213x, 223 pages. Résumé : Georgeanne Brennan moved to Provence in 1970, seeking a simpler life. She set off on her many adventures in Proven?ale cuisine by tracking down a herd of goats, a cool workshop, some rennet, and the lost art of making fresh goat cheese. From this first effort throughout her time in Provence, Brennan transformed from novice fromag?re to renowned, James Beard Foundation Award?winning cookbook author and food writer. A Pig in Provence is the story of how Georgeanne Brennan fell in love with Provence. But it's also the story of making a life beyond the well-trodden path and the story of how food can unite a community. In loving detail, Brennan tells of the herders who maintain a centuries-old grazing route, of the community feast that brings a town to one table, and of the daily rhythms and joys of living by the cycles of food and nature. Sprinkled with recipes that offer samples of Brennan's Proven?ale cooking, A Pig in Provence is a food memoir that urges you to savor every morsel. Biographie: GEORGEANNE BRENNAN is the author of numerous cooking and gardening books, and the recipient of the James Beard Foundation Award and the IACP/Julie Child Cookbook Award for her writing. She lives in northern California and Provence, where she has a seasonal cooking school. Critique: PRAISE FOR A PIG IN PROVENCE You can almost smell the lavender as you follow Brennan's love affair with the province that became her second home and shaped the culinary persona of this cooking teacher and food author. Brennan is a talented storyteller.--San Francisco Chronicle Georgeanne Brennan's captivating memoir reminds me of why I, too, was enchanted by Provence. She beautifully captures the details of living in a place where the culture of the table ties a community together--where everyone knows the butcher and the baker, and everyone depends on the farmers.--Alice Waters, owner, Chez Panisse.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081185213X
• ISBN 13: 9780811852135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Livres de cuisine

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Synopsis

From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new lifethis time in the South of France. Thirty years ago, James Beard Award-winning author Georgeanne Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence en Provence. She and her husband, with their young daughter in tow, bought a small farmhouse with a little land, and a few goats and pigsand so began a life-affirming journey. Filled with delicious recipes and local color, this evocative and passionate memoir describes her life cooking and living in the Provenal traditionan entrancing tale that will whet the appetite and the spiritperfect for foodies, Francophiles, or anyone who's dreamed of packing their bags and buying a ticket to the good life.

About the Author

Georgeanne Brennan is an award-winning author of cooking and gardening books. She lives in Northern California and Provence, where she runs a seasonal cooking school.