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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France (edición 2008)

por Georgeanne Brennan

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Biography & Autobiography. Cooking & Food. Essays. Nonfiction. HTML: A woman and her family give up life in 1970s America for a farmhouse in southern France in this memoir peppered with delicious French recipes. From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new life�??this time in the South of France. In 1970, 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 pigs and 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 Provençal tradition. 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 "Fascinating . . . Brennan revels equally in the preparation and consumption of the regional cuisine You can almost hear her lips smacking." �??The New York Times Book Review "Georgeanne Brennan's romance with Provence continues to deepen, and the result of her long residence there is an intimacy with local people, food, and folkways. I would love to pull up a chair to her table." �??Frances Mayes, author of Under the*… (más)*

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Título:	A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
Autores:	Georgeanne Brennan
Información:	Harvest Books (2008), Edition: 1, Paperback, 209 pages
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I'm a fan of food memoirs that focus mostly on the food and this was one of those. She describes the different types of meals and dishes and learning to cook in the regional French way with great detail and a fluidity that was very easy to read. I can't wait to try some of the easier recipes. (

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mmaestiho | Nov 29, 2018 |

A delightful slice of life, food, family and friends based on the author's extended residencies in Provence. It makes you long for a simpler, more authentic way of life where the relationship with food, its production, preparation, cooking and eating is bound up with the day to day fabric of surviving and enjoying what the earth has to offer, and not complicated and endlessly overblown by what's trendy or fashionable. Focused primarily on food and cooking, it gives glimpses into the author's family life and relationships with two husbands as well as many good friends, but it's not a memoir, unless you want to define it as a food memoir. If you love books like "Under the Tuscan Sun", "A Year in Provence" and so on, you'll love this one (

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Anne_Green | Jun 5, 2014 |

This book has made me drool and slaver and happily refer to the recipes. Imagine escaping from the US's involvement from the Vietnam War by fleeing to Provence with a small daughter and a plan to learn how to herd goats and make cheese. The modern reader is daunted by this lackadaisical plan for generating income. Imagine making all that work out on faith and no Google or Wikipedia.

Liked the idea that the older residents are still proud of having been partisans during WWII, and furthermore are quite satisfied with having kicked the occupying German soldiers back to the curb.

I want mushrooms, red wine, garlic bread and bouillabaisse soooo bad and I am not even half way through this book.

Much, much later: in 2018 I came back to finish reading this book. I wanted to read about the pleasure of food after "Surviving Paradise," because a year of eating not much but plain white rice in the Marshall Islands sounds just terrible. I had no idea that a tropical paradise can be a food desert.

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Biography & Autobiography. Cooking & Food. Essays. Nonfiction. HTML:

A woman and her family give up life in 1970s America for a farmhouse in southern France in this memoir peppered with delicious French recipes.
From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new life�??this time in the South of France. In 1970, 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 pigs and 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 Provençal tradition.
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
"Fascinating . . . Brennan revels equally in the preparation and consumption of the regional cuisine You can almost hear her lips smacking." �??The New York Times Book Review
"Georgeanne Brennan's romance with Provence continues to deepen, and the result of her long residence there is an intimacy with local people, food, and folkways. I would love to pull up a chair to her table." �??Frances Mayes, author of Under the