Betty Fussell (review date 13 May 1990)
SOURCE: "'A Dieter's Vision of Hell,'" in The New York Times Book Review, May 13, 1990, p. 8.
[Fussell is an American educator whose writing interests include travel and cooking. In the review below, she finds A Year in Provence an entertaining look at the food and people of Provence.]
I like a book that begins, "The year began with lunch," particularly when the book [A Year in Provence], year and lunch are set in Provence. And I like a lunch that begins with pastis and ends with marc, that...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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