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Food Lover's Guide to France: A great book, with travel ideas as well as great recipes.

The paperback version from the author of Mediterranean Light. This book gets used several times a month in our kitchen! Recipes for all seasons. The author has spent lots of time in Provence, and it shows! You get travel pointers among the cooking tips.

Mediterranean Light: There are lots of excellent recipes as well as anecdotal comments.

Biscotti. Well, Provence is close to Italy, and this biscuit goes so nicely with great coffee. Finding ingredients to make pastry in France can be a challenge, since most people use the Patisserie, but if you need to re-create the feeling of being in Europe, a great mug of cafe au lait and some double chocolate Biscotti will take you back there.

Feast on cafes, a favorite place for locals and visitors alike to take respite from the pressures and pleasures of the day.

If you are inclined to have a small kitchen garden here's a great selection of ideas on what to grow and how to cook it. Lots of food for thought (pun intended, sorry!)

Recipes and photos of some of the best Bistros in Paris. Some excellent ideas for lamb.

The Joy of Pasta. Excellent recipes, with a wide variety of sauces from light to cheese-laden. If the word pasta brings to mind tomato/meat sauce, you need to see the variety possible. Sorry, we could not find the cover image. The book appears to still be in print.

The Joy of Pasta

Julia Child's "The French Chef" is a classic, and another one of the first cook books I used. The stuffed leg of lamb (my variation on the theme,) is one of our favorites, either on the BBQ on the rotisserie.

One of my first French cookbooks. Out of print.

Pierre Franey's Low-Calorie Gourmet

Remember the cheese scene on the train in ? This book is an encyclopedia of the details of cheese! Sadly out of print. By the way, the movie really does show a lot of the countryside of the south of France. Oh for a bottle of wine, some cheese, bread and a warm fireplace - heaven!

Guide to Cheeses of France

Picnics of Provence. A joy to read, but sadly out of print. Amazon will try to locate a copy for you.

Picnics of Provence : French...

Delia Smith's Summer Collection. Out of print. There are some excellent recipes here when you are searching for yet another way to deal with zucchini.

Delia Smith's Summer Collection