French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew | Peter Mayle

French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew | Peter Mayle | Ils sont fou, ces Gaulois!

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	French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew Peter Mayle Vintage, 2002 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Peter Mayle

My son is very into the french language and culture and this book is excellent is filling in gaps that he does not get at school and through french movies and videos. Thank you.

Ils sont fou, ces Gaulois!

I didn't think I would enjoy this book so I kept putting it off. Boy, was I wrong! What I enjoyed even more than the detailed descriptions of his degustations, were his extremely accurate descriptions of Frenchmen. I studied in French schools throughout my young adulthood and this book brought back so many memories... To top it off, I'm a big cheese lover and cheese plays a big role in this lovely work.

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Mayle's culinary Tour de France.

The French may smoke, drink and eat the richest food in the world, but they live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans. In his better known bestseller, A YEAR IN PROVENCE, Peter Mayle led us on a tour through markets, vineyards, goat races, and mushrooms hunts in the south of France. In FRENCH LESSONS, he takes us on a culinary Tour de France, which includes the consumption of frog legs, snails, truffles, poultry, and, of course, lots of wine along the way. Mayle writes that, upon his first taste of French food, his dormant taste buds "went into spasm" (p. 3), awakening his "Inner Frenchman." FRENCH LESSONS is the result of that experience, and as such is truly a celebration of French cuisine sure to change one's attitudes toward the pleasures of food.

Memorable stops along the Mayle's Tour include a yearly cheese fair at Livarot, "La Foire de Fromages;" a frog-eating festival in Vittel; the Marathon du Medoc offering runners liquid inducements like Lynch-Bages, Lafite Rothschild, Phelan Segur, Latour and Pontet-Canetc rather than Gatorade; and a Richerenches' village mass, in which the parishoners are blessed with a rare, black truffle. For FRENCH LESSONS, Mayle deserves a yellow jersey.

G. Merritt

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La bonne vie de manger de français

In another installation on Peter Mayle's fanciful and intriguing adventures in France, he takes us on a journey throughout this remarkable country to experience the best gastronomic ventures (or adventures in some cases). Whatever your preference (snails, frog legs, or nude lunching), this book is sure to delight and comes with a reference section for those wishing to have their own experiences in true French cuisine.

French food par excellence

Peter visits the fetes of food throughout France - escargout, wine, cheese, etc., etc., etc. A plethora of flavors and smells in Mayle's wonderful style.

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