Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. With wit, humor, and a scoop of wild strawberry sorbet, Bard reminds us that life-in and out of the kitchen-is a rendezvous with the unexpected. Filled with such enticing recipes as stuffed zucchini flowers, a fig tart, and honey-and-thyme ice cream, Picnic in Provence is the story of everything that happens after the happily ever after-an American learning the tricks of French motherhood, a family finding a new professional passion, and a cook's initiation into classic Provençal cuisine. Under the spell of the house and its unique history, Elizabeth and her husband, Gwendal, decide to move-lock, stock, and Le Creuset-to the French countryside and open an artisanal ice cream shop. A chance encounter leads them to the wartime home of a famous poet. Now, with a baby on the way-and the world's flakiest croissant around the corner-Elizabeth is sure she's found her "forever place." But on a last romantic jaunt before the baby arrives, the couple take a trip to the tiny Provençal village of Céreste.
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