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The book highlights her strong sense of place – Fisher’s Celtic eye for detail – with a comparison of Aix-en-Provence, a university town, the site of an international music festival and the former capital of Provence, and Marseille, the port town. Fisher’s description of the sights and smells belonging to an Aix bakery shop window is her Platonic ideal of a bakery shop to be found anywhere in France, for example, with its “delicately layered” scents of “fresh eggs, fresh sweet butter, grated butter, vanilla beans, old kirsch and newly ground almonds.” Then, there is her portrayal of the sounds of Aix’s fountains mixed with the music of Mozart during the town’s festival, leaving her bedazzled. She would return again and again to stroll the narrow streets of Aix with two young daughters who “seemed to grow like water-flowers under the greening buds of the plane trees.” It is the quality of Fisher’s writing that inspired photographer Aileen Ah-Tye to look for her Provence. In a letter to Fisher, Aileen would report back from Marseille: “The eels and the prickly rascasse were exotique to my San Francisco eyes, the smells as pungent as you can get, and . . . miracle of all miracles . . . the men and women on the docks were exactly as you described them.” Thus, began a collaboration that illustrates Fisher’s passion for life and all its sensual pleasures that nourish the soul.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Relation de l'arrivee dans la rade d'Alger du vaisseau de S.M. la Provence : sous les ordres de M. le comte de La Bretonniere : excursion dans la ville et les environs d'Alger, et details precis de l'insulte faite au pavillon du Roi, par les Algeriens, le 3 aout 1829 / par M.-X. Bianchi».

Они жили на изломе эпох, видели воочию и Революцию, и Гражданскую. Ненависть к буржуям, белым, мироедам была всеобщей. Это не персонажи истории или идеологические доктрины. Буржуя можно было видеть повешенным на фонаре или расстрелянным и валяющимся в грязи, здесь, рядом с твоим домом.

Kumme aastat tagasi ronis newyorklanna Elizabeth Bard Pariisi sudalinnas voluva prantslase kannul keerdtrepist ules ja leidis eest pesakese, kuhu pidama jaada. Kui noorpaarile on sundimas nende esimene laps, pole Elizabethil motteski oma elus veel kord midagi muuta. Ent elul on teised plaanid. Viimase romantilise lobusoidu ajal enne lapse sundi suundub noorpaar Provence’i, kus juhuslik kohtumine viib nad kuulsa luuletaja sojaaegsesse kodumajja. Maja valimuse ja unikaalse mineviku lummuses otsustavad nad linnast maale kolida. Neid voluvad Provence’i sinine taevalaotus, lavendlivaljad ja paikesemaitselised virsikud. Raamatus leidub mitmeid ahvatlevaid retsepte, nagu taidetud rullkorvitsaoied, viigimarjatort ja tuumianimaitseline lavendlimeejaatis. Elutarkuse, huumori ja kulbitaie maasikasorbeti abil tuletab Bard meile meelde, et elu – nii koogis kui ka koogist valjaspool – on kohtumine ootamatustega. Ameerika ajakirjanik Elizabeth Bard elab Prantsusmaal. Bardi esikraamat „Lounasook Pariisis. Horgutav armastuslugu retseptidega”, mis ilmus kirjastuses Varrak 2012. aastal, sai kiiresti rahvusvaheliseks bestelleriks.