Provence is about a singular historic moment In the winter of that year more or less coincidentally the iconic culinary figures James Beard MFK Fisher Julia Child Richard Olney Simone Beck and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France They cooked and ate talked and argued about the future of food in America the meaning of taste and the limits of snobbery Without quite realizing it they were shaping todayrsquos tastes and culture the way we eat now The conversations among this group were chronicled by MFK Fisher in journals and lettersmdashsome of which were later discovered by Luke Barr her great-nephew In Provence he captures this seminal season set against a stunning backdrop in cinematic scopemdashcomplete with gossip drama and contemporary relevance.
