Toujours Provence

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Peter Mayle, now known as 'The English Écrevisse\ takes up his knife, fork and glass once more to continue where A Year in Provence left off.
Skulking through British Customs with a suitcase full of truffles, tracking down a man whose ambition is to make toads sing the 'Marseillaise', finding gold at the bottom of the garden, taking pastis lessons, and looking nervously over his Shoulder at forest fires, you might think that he has little time to spare for the pleasures of the table.
But with the help of the gourmet in the tracksuit and the man who brings two dozen bottles of wine with him to lunch, the stomach is served often and well, from a relais routier to a restaurant tres sérieux in Avignon, as well as a stagecoach picnic in the mountains and Pavarotti's secret dinner.
From vantage points as varied as the Cannes Film Festival, the caves at Châteauneuf-du-Pape and the Ménerbes Dog Show, you will see that life in Provence is far from the quiet and uneventful existence... Tovább

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Peter Mayle, now known as 'The English Écrevisse\ takes up his knife, fork and glass once more to continue where A Year in Provence left off.
Skulking through British Customs with a suitcase full of truffles, tracking down a man whose ambition is to make toads sing the 'Marseillaise', finding gold at the bottom of the garden, taking pastis lessons, and looking nervously over his Shoulder at forest fires, you might think that he has little time to spare for the pleasures of the table.
But with the help of the gourmet in the tracksuit and the man who brings two dozen bottles of wine with him to lunch, the stomach is served often and well, from a relais routier to a restaurant tres sérieux in Avignon, as well as a stagecoach picnic in the mountains and Pavarotti's secret dinner.
From vantage points as varied as the Cannes Film Festival, the caves at Châteauneuf-du-Pape and the Ménerbes Dog Show, you will see that life in Provence is far from the quiet and uneventful existence suggested by those postcards of empty villages and picturesque peasants. Ali kinds of characters are lurking in the lavender: estate agents, a disgraced gendarme, reporters from Vogue and, hot off the autoroute and baying for social activity, the summer invaders.
Toujours Provence proves beyond any doubt that while you may not be able to get away from it ali, at least you can have fun trying. Vissza