(Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living By Mark Greenside

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WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Every year upon arriving in Plobien, the small Breton town where he spends his summers, American writer Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas–filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled, but not daunted (OK, slightly daunted), he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all, when can he touch the tomatoes? Despite the two decades that have passed since Greenside’s snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. Continuing the journey begun in his 2009 memoir about beginning life in France, (Not Quite) Mastering the Art of French Living details Greenside’s daily adventures in his adopted French home, where the simplest tasks are never straightforward but always end in a great story. Through some hits and lots of misses, he learns the rules of engagement, how he gets what he needs—which is not necessarily what he thinks he wants—and how to be grateful and thankful when (especially when) he fails, which is more often than he can believe. Introducing the English-speaking world to the region of Brittany in the tradition of Peter Mayle’s homage to Provence, Mark Greenside’s first book, I’ll Never Be French, continues to be among the bestselling books about the region today. Experienced Francophiles and armchair travelers alike will delight in this new chapter exploring the practical and philosophical questions of French life, vividly brought to life by Greenside’s humor and affection for his community.

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In Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child quantified and organized what had often been culturally traditional and instinctual ways of preparing food so that stay-at-home Americans could enjoy the culinary pleasures she had experienced when she first moved to France with her husband after World War II. With her title, Child reinforced the already acknowledged view that the French took cooking seriously enough to elevate it to an art. As many of her recipes showed, however, that elevation was not reached without a lot of time, knowledge, and study – it had to be mastered. There were unimagined pleasures to be had at table, but only for those who were willing to put in the necessary effort—or knew someone else who was.Mark Greenside’s new book, (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living, definitely suggests that the French, or at least some of them, have applied the same approach to life. It can be good, rich, and healthy, but only for those who are willing to work at it. He doesn’t try to explain how Americans might accomplish the same thing here in the States. For him, you have to go to France to experience it.Many of the anecdotes from his two decades of living in a small town in western France deal with cultural differences and how he learned to deal with them: the frustrations (for Americans) of figuring out French road signage, the complications and restrictions of French banking rules, the fact that efficiency and speed are not high priorities, etc. Sometimes Greenside triumphs on his own through sheer persistence, but often it’s thanks to the patient help of some French person who takes him literally by the hand to guide him on his way. And, sometimes, he fails, which he blames on himself and not the French.Sometimes, too, the better he gets to know parts of French life, especially life in the provinces far from Paris, the more he comes to appreciate it. He has unabashed admiration for the French national healthcare system. He is continually surprised by the social cohesion he sees in his area of western Brittany: the residents often have the opportunity to take advantage of each other, but they just don’t. That same respect for social interaction also explains, however, why so many things take so much longer than they would here in the States.There are a lot of very funny scenes in this book, many of them revolving around food. One of my favorites was his encounter with two busloads of retirees at a grilled pig banquet. There is also his first encounter with andouille (pig intestines), which smell of what they are. Not surprisingly, much of the book deals with Greenside’s encounters with food that most of us never see in the United States. Sometimes the idea of what it is repulses him. He learns to eat first and ask later.My favorite parts of the book are those that recount his interactions with the French, because they are infallibly written with tolerance and appreciation. Yes, the French sometimes do things that make no sense to us. But so often, they are willing to go out of their way – sometimes considerably out of their way – to help this American with minimal French and often even less understanding of how things work in France. You’ll get a lot of laughs out of this book, but it’s never done with an attempt to degrade what is different just because that’s not how we do it here in the States.

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