Patricia Wells is a cookbook author and teacher who divides her time between Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 and Provence

Provence

Provence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...

. Her book Patricia Wells at Home in Provence (1996) won the James Beard

James Beard

James Andrew Beard was an American chef and food writer. The central figure in the story of the establishment of a gourmet American food identity, Beard was an eccentric personality who brought French cooking to the American middle and upper classes in the 1950s...

 Award for Best International Cookbook. Wells is the only American and the only woman to be a restaurant critic for a major French publication, L'Express

L'Express (France)

L'Express is a French weekly news magazine. When founded in 1953 during the First Indochina War, it was modelled on the US magazine TIME.-History:...

(1988–1991). She was also a restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune

International Herald Tribune

The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories...

from 1980 until 2007.
Books:

• The Food Lover's Guide to Paris (1984)
• The Food Lover's Guide to France (1987)
• Bistro Cooking (1989)
• Simply French (1991)
• Patricia Wells' Trattoria (1993)
• Patricia Wells at Home in Provence (1996)
• L'Atélier of Joel Robuchon (1998)
• The Paris Cookbook (2001)
• The Provence Cookbook (2004)
• Vegetable Harvest (2007)

External links

• Patricia Wells Online