Product Description: Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the experience of slugging it out over twenty years of living, observing, and coping in Paris! From a small town in Iowa to the City of Lights, Harriet has done what so many dream of someday doing--she picked up and moved to France...read more

Product Description: Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French. From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many dream of one day doing-she picked up and moved to France...read more

An American woman chronicles her thirty-year love affair with French food in an often hilarious book about one of the world's greatest, and least accessible, cuisines. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

The author, an American who has lived in Paris for the past twenty years, describes French attitudes towards food, money, love, marriage, manners, school, and style