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  • Georgeanne Brennan grew up in Southern

    • A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

    June 9, 2017
    This book has a promising beginning. I typically enjoy books with chapters that tell a story followed by a recipe from the story, in fact I often follow that formula in my own blog at seasonaleating.net. However, unlike a blog, a book works best if the chapters build together to tell an overall story with beginning, middle, and end. Although some of the first chapters tell entertaining stories about an American living with her husband and children in rural Provence in the 1970s, other chapters jump abruptly into the 21st century, with the same American in Provence sans kids and with a new husband. These latter chapters describe various feasts, foods, and French people, but with little sense of place or continuity compared with the 1970s-based chapters. Husband #2’s character isn’t developed at all. And whatever happened to Husband #1, so calm, knowledgeable, and handy with the couple’s pigs and goats when emergencies arose?

    With that said, the first two chapters are wonderful. A young American couple with a small child move to Provence. They try their hands at the lost art of traditional goat cheese making and then at small scale pig farming. The neighbors who help are clearly depicted as unique individuals. The third chapter, all about learning to find and prepare wild mushrooms, is also quite enjoyable, with another quirky French character or two. Too bad the couple moved back to the US after this chapter, because the thread of the story didn’t pick up readily again. Also, a glossary of French words and their translations would have been beneficial for readers who don’t speak French.
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    • Georgeanne Brennan


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    Georgeanne Brennan is an award-winning cookbook author and journalist. Her expertise in all things related to food and gastronomy ranges from farming and agriculture to history and food lore. Her cookbook, Aperitif: Recipes for Simple Pleasures in the French Style, won the Julia Child Cookbook Award in 1998. Ms. Brennan was educated at San Diego State University, the University of California and the University of Aix-Marseille in Provence, France, the village that would be the inspiration for her memoir-cookbook, The Food and the Flavors of Haute Provence, winner of the 1998 James Beard Cookbook Award. Ms. Brennan currently resides with her husband on a small farm in Northern California near Davis. They have four children. The author lives in Northern California.

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    Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook, November 2006
    Hardcover

    A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

    From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new lifethis time in the South of France. Thirty years ago, 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 pigsand 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 Provenal traditionan entrancing tale that will whet the appetite and the spiritperfect for foodies, Francophiles, or anyone who's dreamed of packing their bags and buying a ticket to the good life.

  • Georgeanne Brennan is an award-winning cookbook
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