Wining and dining in France with Patricia Wells

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week it's food critic and cookbook author Patricia Wells. Originally from the US, she moved to Paris in 1980 where she worked as a restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune and later the French weekly newspaper L’Express.

Along the way she has published 15 books and made a home in Paris and Chanteduc, in Provence.

We also talk of how Patricia is selling her collection of antiques and furniture via antique's dealer Chez Pluie. You can find the collection: At Home with Patricia Wells by following this link.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, Oliver G here from the Earful Tower.
0:02.9	A fun episode for you today.
0:05.2	It's my chat with Patricia Wells, an American cookbook author, chef, food writer, cooking class instructor.
0:14.0	And if you ask me, legend of the French Anglo scene, Patricia Wells.
0:20.2	So we talk a little bit about
0:21.9	her coming to Paris in 1980,
0:24.8	how the food scenes changed,
0:26.7	her meeting and befriending Julia Child,
0:29.4	and a heck of a lot more.
0:31.7	Enjoy the episode.
0:33.0	Thanks to the Patreon supporters
0:34.4	for making this possible.
0:36.7	More on that at the end of the episode.
0:38.6	And are you ready?
0:40.4	Because I am.
0:41.6	Let's get into it.
0:58.7	Patricia Wells. How are you doing today?
0:59.3	Great.
1:01.1	That is an energetic response.
1:01.7	I love it.
1:04.0	It's so nice to sit down and meet you.
1:08.9	I feel I've got that celeb warning going off in my head. Oh, stop.
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