A taste for Provence
By: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780226322841
Subjects: Travel writing; Americans; Description and travel; History
Description: In A Taste for Provence, historian Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz digs into this question and spins a wonderfully appealing tale of how Provence became Provence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Jefferson and the love of antiquity; title: Roman ruins and rough land; title: Laurence Wylie and the authentic Provence; title: France, yes! But Provence?; title: Preparing the way to Provence for postwar travelers; title: Irving Penn and the reinvention of Provence; title: The senses; title: Eternal Provence? Maybe not; title: Getting ready to taste; title: But not ready for prime time; title: Julia Child and the pleasures of Provence; title: The sell; title: The tomato; title: The romance of Berkeley and Bandol; title: The lure of cookbooks; title: Buying it here, bringing it home; title: Patricia Wells and the joys of staying in place; title: Résidences secondaires; title: Renting; title: Along came Mayle; title: The beaten path; title: Au revoir and bonjour.