num_pages: 320
description: Provence 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year more or less coincidentally the iconic culinary figures James Beard M.F.K. Fisher Julia Child Richard Olney Simone Beck and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate talked and argued about the future of food in America the meaning of taste and the limits of snobbery. Without quite realizing it they were shaping todays tastes and culture the way we eat now. The conversations among this group were chronicled by M.F.K. Fisher in journals and letterssome of which were later discovered by Luke Barr her great-nephew. In Provence 1970 he captures this seminal season set against a stunning backdrop in cinematic scopecomplete with gossip drama and contemporary relevance.
language: English
title: Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
publisher: Clarkson Potter