Georgeanne Brennan
ASIN: B008RM37RQ
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Pages: 228
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 ...