French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French

Summary

Peter Mayle may have spent a year in Provence, but Harriet Welty Rochefort writes from the experience of slugging it out over twenty years of living, observing, and coping in Paris! From a small town in Iowa to the City of Lights, Harriet has done what so many dream of someday doing—she picked up and moved to France. But it has not been twenty years of fun and games; Harriet has endured her share of cultural bumps, bruises, and psychic adjustments.

In French Toast, Harriet demystifies the French. She makes sense of their ever-so-French thoughts on food, money, sex, love, marriage, manners, schools, style, and much more. Harriet’s first-person account offers both a helpful reality-check and a lot of very funny moments.