Salut!

Published by Random House (NZ) Ltd, 2000
(out of print)

The French live in a country so beautiful they have the most tourists in the world, in spite of their efforts to humiliate them - and they have the best cuisine and wine in the world. Or do they? Follow Peta around France as she takes stock of French cuisine in restaurants, truck stops, farmhouses, castle moats and barges. Sample with her the recipes, the crusty bread and crustier waiters, a zillion kinds of olives and mushrooms and the open-armed hospitality of the people she stays with in presbyteries, apartments, huts and châteaux. Learn how to choose the juiciest chicken, the spiciest artichoke, and how to sass the stallholders at the marché. In the evening she'll take you down to the village square to feast, dance and laugh the night away. "A tour of France, friends and family where I was blown by the winds of work, festivals, love and circumstance" - Peta Mathia