01825cam a2200241 4500 1261940540 TxAuBib 060315s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006040885 9781400044429 alk. paper 1400044421 alk. paper (OCoLC)6877 DLC eng DLC IG# BAKER GK8 OCO BUR BTCTA YDXCP PUL VP@ SMP CQU BDX OCLCF OCLCO OSU UtOrBLW TxAuBib Mayle, Peter. Provence A-Z / Peter Mayle. Provence A to Z. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2006. xi, 286 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm. A sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own. Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or downright fun. In more than 170 wide-ranging entries he writes about architecture, expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, the Proven♭al character, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the museum of the French Foreign Legion, the museum of the corkscrew, the origins of ""La Marseillaise,"" and a bawdy folklore character named Fanny. Of course, he writes about food and drink: vin ros♭, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion. The accompanying artwork includes curiosities Mayle has gathered over the years--matchbooks, drawings, century-old ads, photos, tourist brochures, maps.--From publisher description. Provence (France) Description and travel. Provence (France) Social life and customs.