Provence Harvest: With 40 Recipes by Award-Winning Chef Jacques Chibois [Hardcover]

Louisa Jones (Author), Guy Hervais (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2005

To visit Provence is to fall in love not only with its landscapes but also its food. In Provence Harvest, two longtime residents of the legendary area in the South of France take readers on a stunning tour of both the countryside and the cuisine it has inspired. Filled with recipes and reminiscences and illustrated with 200 gorgeous photographs, the book captures what it is like to cook, eat, and live in this beautiful region.

Michelin two-star chef Jacques Chibois offers 40 Provençal recipes-roast partridge with chestnuts and juniper berries, ribbons of warm leeks with truffles, and French toast with roasted apples, to name a few-along with helpful advice on topics ranging from cooking fish to using flowers in the kitchen. In her engaging text, Louisa Jones explores the places and products that enhance Chibois's cooking and give it a true Provençal flavor. A tribute to the "farm to plate" philosophy, Provence Harvest is an insider's guide to appreciating-and re-creating-the world-famous cuisine of Provence in your own kitchen.

Features stunning photography of both the cuisine and landscape of Provence
Includes 40 recipes by renowned French chef Jacques Chibois, along with advice for the home cook
Foreword by chef and James Beard Award nominee Dan Barber

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Louisa Jones has lived in Provence for more than 30 years. A specialist in Provençal food and culture, she has published 16 books in French and English concerning gardening both for aesthetic pleasure and to produce ingredients for the area's indigenous cuisine

Chef Jacques Chibois has earned two Michelin stars, and was named Chef of the Year in 2002 by the Pudlowski Guide. His restaurant, La Bastide Saint-Antoine in Grasse, France, is renowned for its use of local, seasonal products. He is co-author of the best-selling Saveurs et parfums de l'huile d'olive.

James Beard Award nominee Dan Barber is owner and chef of Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a restaurant, working farm, and educational center in New York's Hudson Valley.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang; 1St Edition edition (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584794348
• ISBN-13: 978-1584794349
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > Travel > Europe > France > Provence

More About the Author

For Garden Week in Provence information, see www.susanwornertours.com. For updates on Louisa Jones' books and activities, see the blog at http://louisajones.wordpress.com/

Canadian born Louisa Jones has been gardening in southern France since 1975 when she and her husband bought the old farmhouse they still inhabit. She has written some thirty books about contemporary French gardens, recently specializing in Mediterranean regions. For her first illustrated book, Gardens in Provence (1992) Louisa visited more than two hundred gardens of all styles and sizes. She found that, in the Mediterranean, there is no separation between ornamental and useful or productive gardening. Traditional Mediterranean gardening is "multiple": many pleasures, many uses for all seasons. Like Mediterranean cuisine, it is locally based and economical, but capable of great refinement; pleasure-giving, healthy and accessible to all. It has proven its capacity to maintain a durable partnership with the land. Most recently, Louisa Jones has been exploring vernacular Mediterranean landscapes, worked and fashioned by humankind for millenia, that are today biodiversity hotspots and an inspiration to gifted artists. Louisa has also published two books with leading French ecologist, Gilles Clément. She writes in both English and French, and gardens every day. She also organizes visits to private designer gardens around Avignon in April and October.