



Along the way, challenges abound, from renovating a historic cottage to navigating new motherhood (French style), but Bard meets them with her trademark honesty and humour.įull of discoveries, mishaps, feasts, and recipes, Picnic in Provence is about everything that happens after the happily ever after, and reminds us that life, in and out of the kitchen, is a rendezvous with the unexpected. This is the story of how they embarked on a new adventure and became culinary entrepreneurs, starting an artisanal ice cream shop and experimenting with local ingredients like saffron, sheep’s milk yogurt and olive oil. In this book, the couple and their newborn son bid farewell to Paris for rural life in a tiny village in Provence – land of blue skies, lavender fields and peaches that taste like sunshine. Under the spell of the house and its unique history, in less time than it takes to flip a crepe, Bard and Gwendal decide to move – lock, stock and Le Creuset – to the French countryside. A chance encounter leads them to the wartime home of a famous poet, a tale of a buried manuscript and a garden full of heirloom roses. In Lunch in Paris, Elizabeth Bard fell in love with a handsome Frenchman and moved to the City of Light.īut life c ahangesnd on a last romantic jaunt before a baby arrives, the couple take a trip to the tiny Provencal village of Céreste. Publisher: Harper Collins What’s it all about?Ī delicious follow up to Lunch in Paris this time the author takes readers to the heart of Provence.
