{"product_id":"provence-a-z","title":"Provence A-Z","description":"An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.\n\nThough 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 down-right fun.\n\nIn more than 170 entries he writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and zingue-zingue-zoun (in the local patois, a word meant to describe the sound of a violin), as diverse as expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, the Provençal 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.\n\nAnd, of course, he writes about food and drink: vin rosé, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion. The wonderful accompanying artwork includes curiosities Mayle has gathered over the years—matchbooks, drawings, century-old ads, photos, tourist brochures, maps.\nProvence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayle’s ever-growing audience and the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France., ISBN13: 9781400044429 ISBN10: 1400044421 Material Type: hardcover","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51258844053811,"sku":"CH_10-09-24_ART_301KG1","price":13.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/5086\/1363\/files\/21HN5Y4FZFL.jpg?v=1753698909","url":"https:\/\/cheapbookdepot.com\/products\/provence-a-z","provider":"Cheap Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}