Title:	Le Sud: Recipes from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
	Author:	Rebekah Peppler
	Published:	April 23, 2024, Chronicle Books
	No. of Pages:	280
	Cover Price:	$35.00 Hardcover, $16.99 Kindle

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While there are many French cookbooks available, James Beard finalist and award winning author, Rebekah Pepplar has focused on one not so well-known region of France in her cookbook, Le Sud: Recipes from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. While this cookbook has some classic French recipes, it has lots more unique and innovative recipes using the ingredients of the region. This cookbook is absolutely beautiful, and not only contains mouthwatering recipes that cooks will want to prepare, but also gorgeous photographs of the region, photographs of the food, and stories that will make everyone want to visit the area as soon as possible. This is one cookbook that is nice enough to be a coffee table book, and so well-written, most will want to curl up in a corner and read it cover to cover.

The recipes are written in the traditional manner with ingredients listed along with step-by-step instructions. But each recipe has stories or notes about the recipe which are worth reading and will make each dish seem more special. The book is well-written and definitely fun to read (not to mention the fact that the “must make soon” queue will grow longer every time the book is opened).

While I own dozens of good French cookbooks that I use often, none seem as wonderful after owning this one. It is fun to cook from and the recipes turn out beautifully. It will be the goal of every reader who cooks from this and reads this to visit the region and eat everything mentioned in the book.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.