Pedaling Through Provence Cookbook

by Sarah Leah Chase

There's no better way to get to know the land, the people, and the food-especially the food-of Provence than on a bicycle. It's an experience that Sarah Leah Chase, author of Nantucket Open-House Cookbook and Cold-Weather Cooking and, since college, a bicycle tour Guide for Butterfield & Robinson , celebrates in Pedaling Through Provence Cookbook . Like its sister book, Pedaling Through Burgundy , this personal cookbook contains a select but dazzling selection of recipes and is illustrated throughout in full color. Peppered with anecdotes, travel writing, cooking tips, and wine notes, it brings to life the sunny, olive-oil-based cuisine of Southern Sweet Potato Aoli, Roasted Eggplant Soup with Rouille, five lamb dishes including Roast Rack of Lamb with Lavender Honey and Herbes de Provence, and Bountiful Berry Clafoutis.

36,000 copies in print.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, France, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent recipes and descriptions of the foods of Provence. Could do with tighter editing for redundancies and snobbery, (what bike tour guide can't change a flat tire?!) and reads like an ad for Butterfield and Robinson bike tours, but otherwise a delight.

[Sandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reminded me of my awesome, enchanting days in Spain...on the Costa Blanca...exploring and savoring, creating magic memories I wish I could relive! The 15th c. fishing village (Javea) where we lived for 5 1/2 years, is much like Provence...with wild snails (ultimately escargo), lavender, iris, rosemary & thyme, Javea overlooking the sleepy Mediterranean.