Synopses & Reviews
This “Petit
Pudlo” is a guide to the best hotels, restaurants, cafés, and food shops in more than 100 cities, towns, and villages in the beautiful French provinces of Provence and the Côte dAzur.
The region of Provence—Alps—Côte dAzur is known for celebrating the simple sensuous pleasures of life. Ideally situated between the Mediterranean coastline and the Alps, the sunny, bright region offers quaint hilltop cities and lively towns, medieval fortresses and Roman ruins, and fields of flowers and lavender made famous by painters. Visitors can choose between the livelier towns of Nice and Cannes, home of the famous film festival, and the calmer more discreet villages of Beaulieu, Menton, Cap-Ferrat, or Grasse, the perfume capital of the world. Monaco provides its guests with fashionable elegant surroundings in an international atmosphere. Gilles Pudlowskis guide profiles hundreds of hotels, restaurants serving bouillabaisse and other regional dishes, and the regions famous rosés and red wines. Dozens of cafés, bars, and gourmet shops are also listed, town by town.
About the Author
Gilles Pudlowski is the restaurant critic and journalist for the French weekly magazine
Le Point; a contributor to
Saveurs and
Bon Voyage magazines; cultural commentator and critic; a historian of French regional culinary traditions; and the author of two cookbooks,
France the Beautiful Cookbook and
Great Women Chefs of Europe. He is the author of
Pudlo Paris 2007—2008 and
Pudlo France 2008—2009, both available from The Little Bookroom.
Simon Beaver grew up in the south of England, but moved to Paris nearly thirty years ago. He initially worked as an English teacher, but soon discovered a taste for translation. For two and a half decades now, he has been adapting books, TV and movie scripts, songs, and biographies into English; writing subtitles; and recording voice-overs. Whenever he can, he spends time at his second home on the Normandy coast, or in England or Andalusia.