SWC Reads: French Lessons

While Food might not be one of the official five love languages, I fully believe it is one of mine. I fall a little bit in love with every waiter, cook, and delivery person who has ever brought me a tasty meal. I don’t know why, only that it can’t be helped. I’m eating as I write this, in fact. So it should come as no great surprise that I also love to read about food. Not only cookbooks but historical, informational, and biographical pieces as well. And the ever brilliant Peter Mayle has brought a bit of all of those elements together in French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew.

You may have heard of Mayle as the author of A Year in Provence (among several others). But there’s something about French Lessons that has burrowed its way deeper into my heart than anything else he’s done (which are all fantastic and totally worth a read as well).

Mayle takes his reader through his most entertaining travels through France in a quest to discover the greatest culinary events France has to offer. Everything from frog leg weekends to truffle auctions and wine marathons. Mayle traverses them all in a delightfully decadent culinary revelation as only the French can serve.

I invite all of you to join me for Mayle’s gastronomic adventure into the absurdly, impossibly, all-consuming (pun intended) French way of eating.

In the comments let me know your favorite French dish!

xo,

Kate