ISBN: 9780307718341

Edition: First edition.

Description: 309 pages ; 22 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Prologue
• All Alone : December 20, 1970
• Ten Weeks Earlier ...
• En Route to Provence
• An Epic Dinner with Richard Olney
• First Meals in France
• La Pitchoune, Country Retreat
• James Beard's Doomed Diet
• Paris Interlude
• A Dinner Party at the Childs
• Sexual Politics
• Twilight of the Snobs
• Escape
• The Ghost of Arles and Avignon
• Christmas and Reveillon
• Going Home
• Last House
• New Beginnings
• Afterword: Provence Now.

Control Number: 944766

Subjects:

• Beard, James, 1903-1985.
• Child, Julia.
• Cooking, American -- History -- 20th century.
• Cooking, American -- Philosophy.
• Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy), 1908-1992.
• Jones, Judith, 1924-2017
• Olney, Richard -- Homes and haunts -- France -- Provence.
• Olney, Richard.
• Provence (France) -- Biography.
• Provence (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.