A Table!: The Gourmet Culture of France

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. 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.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.