![]() ![]() Peter Mayles (J January 18, 2018) classic piece of travel writing chronicles the year Mayle, British advertising creative, relocated with his wife to an undiscovered fairy-tale parcel of the world: Provence. His adventures, gastronomic and otherwise, are thoroughly entertaining. A Year in Provence should be read with thick plummy-red red and crusty bread soaked in truffle oil. He opens with an account of a memorable New Year's lunch, ends with an appreciation of an impromptu Christmas dinner, and describes just about every meal eaten during the months in between. The 1989 international bestselling book, which chronicled Mayle's move from England to France. ![]() The Provencal cuisine is Mayle's leitmotif, however. Author Peter Mayle, who wrote A Year in Provence, has died aged 78, his publisher has said. Even so, it cant drown out the grousing in the Bar du Progres when the name Peter Mayle, best-selling author of 'A Year in Provence'-the man who made this village famous-is spoken. Even donating blood is an occasion for fun. In nimble prose, Mayle, columnist for GQ, captures the humorous aspects of visits to markets, vineyards and goat races, and hunting for mushrooms. Throwing themselves into the life of this rural region, they master the local customs, gain partial understanding of their neighbors' patois, overcome the frustrations of French bureaucracy, and learn to deal with workmen who operate on the idiosyncratic Provencal sense of time. The author describes his first 12 months in Provence, after he and his wife have abandoned England for an 18th-century farmhouse in the Luberon Mountains. In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Maylee tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Luberon with his wife and two large dogs. ![]()
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