A Table! ~ The Gourmet Culture of France (French Edition)

This is a unique content-based book covering French culture through the highly motivational material of French cuisine. Organized like a French menu, each chapter includes prose essays, poetry, grammar points, a degustation exercise and a recipe for students who might want to try their hand at food preparation. Not simply a culinary book, A Table! integrates a wide variety of cultural issues into this intriguing text . It requires no special knowledge of cuisine, of course, outside what each chapter makes easily available. The book provides some structure for the instructor to use Peter Mayle s (A Year in Provence) Adventure dans la France Gourmande. Discussion questions for his book are included in the Appendix.