A Table ! - The Gourmet Culture of France

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Description

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.

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.

Appropriate Course Info

For courses in French language and culture at the junior / senior level. This book uses food as a theme to provide coherence for a course that covers French culture through cuisine. Appropriate for courses in society, history, customs and attitude.

Features

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.

About the Author

Becky Brown is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Purdue University. Her research includes: sociolinguistics, Romance linguistics and varieties of French. She is also interested in innovative methodologies for student learning, has taught for twenty years and has received many teaching awards.

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