Research Catalog

Title

France : a love story / edited by Camile Cusumano

Publication

Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cusumano, Camille

Description

xvii, 297 p.; 19 cm

Summary

Twenty-five women describe the country they love and why they fell under its spell.

Alternative Title

Women write about the French experience

Subjects

• France > In literature > Women authors
• France in literature > Women authors
• American prose literature > Women authors
• Women authors, American

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Wild boar and mad Englishmen / Kay Sexton -- The mother of vinegar / Margaret Judge -- Long ago in France / M.F.K. Fisher -- The fisher baron's secret / Diane LeBow -- Digging Dordogne / Erika Lutz -- A prenuptial visit to Chartres / Dalia Sofer -- Paris can wait / Lori Oliva -- Madame Michel / Susan M. Tiberghien -- Paris revisited / Constance Hale -- Paris noir / Monique Y. Wells -- André / Alice Kaplan -- Foie gras dreams / Melinda Bergman Burgener -- Liberté / Valerie J. Brooks -- My humbling chateau / Kate Adamek -- Paris lip / Ayun Halliday -- The source of the Seine / Georgia Hesse -- Searching for Cèpes / Susan Fox Rogers -- A change in Le Havre / Ginger Adams Otis -- Comfort me with apples / Ruth Reichl -- Beaujolais nouveau / Mary Schattenberg -- The pleasures of the table / Camille Cusumano -- My French fetish / Lisa Solod -- The dirt on French service / Rikke Jorgensen -- Food to which Aunt Pauline and Lady Godiva led us / Alice B. Toklas -- Speaking French / Judy Kronenfeld -- About the contributors -- About the editor.

ISBN

1580051154

OCLC

• 55989015
• SCSB-12478860

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library