Customer Reviews:
 My absolute favourite cookbook ! September 24, 2004
I bought this book when it was first published and am returning to Amazon today to buy another copy --- most of the pages are stuck together from YEARS of cooking with it. Every single section has wonderful recipes that are simple to prepare with ingredients you can find anywhere -- and the result is always delicious and beautifully presented. I reach for this book more often than Joy or Julia Child, it's that much of a standard in our house !!!
Inspirational! Down to Earth! Delicious! June 15, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We spent 1 week in Provence this year, and have become so attached to it! Having coming back to California I've realized that with the strong climatic connections, we can adapt our life a bit and relive our experiences. This cookbook is wonderful - I now know why Patricia cooks for friends all of the time - I have made so many of her recipes we can hardly eat it all! I have visited our own farmers market and have found such pleasure re-enacting our visits to the markets in Provence. Especially easy for the working wife/mother are the fish wrapped in pancetta, and the Pasta with Roquefort/lemon zest/rosemary. I slow-roasted big red onions this weekend, and am preserving lemons, and planning on doing the salt-cured olives, plus trying the brioche recipe, and on and on and on!!! Thank you Patiricia for this book!
 I love French cooking, this is Provencal and is better. July 6, 1997
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Of all the countries in the world, France in one of the most influential to the culinary arts. In the Southern part of the country is a superb region known as Provence where Patricia Wells has lived for over 13 years. Patricia Wells at Home in Provence is her 'scrapbook' of recipes that have been inspired by her living in her farmhouse in Provence, France. Smoked Trout Tartare, Monkfish Bouillabaisse with A(oli, Braised & Gratin3/4ed Fennel, Fettucine with Roquefort Lemon Zest & Rosemary, Crusty Wheat & Polenta Bread, Monkfish "Carpaccio", The Winemaker's Duck with Olives & Artichokes, Lemon-Thyme Lamb Chops and Cherry & Goat Cheese Gratin are just a few of the titles of the extraordinary recipes found in this book. Wells' award-winning journalistic style shows in her layouts of each recipe giving the reader more then just ingredients and preparation details. Many of the recipes give ingredient or wine tips, history or suggestions.Patricia Wells at Home in Provence with the Author's name in the title is also published by Scribner. An exclusive compilation of personal recipes 'inspired by her farmhouse in France'.
A great French Provencal cookbook April 11, 1997
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