Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-304) 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.
Summary
Presents a dramatic account of the 1970 gathering in Provence where such culinary luminaries as James Beard and Julia Child debated and inadvertently launched the modern food movement in America.
