Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French.
She, her husband, Phillipe, and their sons live in Paris..
She has also taught journalism in the English Department of the prestigious Institut d\'Etudes Politiques.
Her column, "A Letter from Paris," can be found on-line in the Paris Pages.
She is a freelance journalist who has contributed articles to major newspapers and magazine, including Time and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
She moved permanently to France in 1971.
About the Author: Harriet Welty Rochefort was born in Shenandoah, Iowa.
She investigates such delicate matters as how to eat asparagus, how to approach Parisian women, how to speak to merchants, how to drive, and, most important, how to make a seven-course meal in a silk blouse without an apron Harriet\'s first-person account offers both a helpful reality check and a lot of very funny moments.
She makes sense of their ever-so-French thoughts on food, money, sex, love, marriage, manners, schools, style, and much more.
In French Toast, she shares her hard-earned wisdom and does as much as one woman can to demystify the French.
But it has not been twenty years of fun and games
Harriet has endured her share of cultural bumps, bruises, and psychic adjustments along the way.
From a small town in Iowa to the City of Light, Harriet has done what so many dream of one day doing-she picked up and moved to France.
Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the wise perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French
