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Provence.(Restaurant review)
When Michel Jean opened this homage to his native region, in 1986, it became a neighborhood institution, and, until it closed, a year ago, made its quiet corner of SoHo seem like a piece of French sovereign soil, with its Bastille Day petanque tournaments and Beaujolais bacchanals in November. Now Marc Meyer and Vicki Freeman (who also own Five Points and Cookshop) have taken on the task of remaking an old favorite for a city in which French bistros are as common as Irish pubs--and sometimes about as French. They spruced up the interior a little but left essentially untouched its two greatest assets: a long windowed frontage on the street, open in the summer, and two delightful rooms at the back, in which floral displays and large skylights give the effect of an indoor garden.
The menu, bearing an epigraph from the Provencal poet Frederic Mistral, has the sort of regional feel you might expect--the sauces abound with olive tapenades and orange zest, and specialities like pissaladiere and bouillabaisse occasionally appear--but it ventures as far east as gnocchi and as far south as couscous. At its best, the cooking, aided by a well-chosen array of predominantly southern wines, succeeds in transporting you to a sunny Arlesian ...
- Keeper of the Keys : Frederic Mistral, noble poet of Provence.(Biography)
- Magazine article from: World and I RAKE, TIMOTHY December 1, 2003 700+ words
...that deliver him from bondage. --Frederic Mistral On the Place des Carmes in Avignon...what was once the boarding school of Frederic Mistral. Here, in the cobbledstone square...Nobel Prize in 1904. The long life of Frederic Mistral, whose celebrity ascended on the...
- Respira ciudad aires del medievo.(De Viaje)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) April 27, 2003 700+ words
...por una generacin de grandes poetas provenzales, como Frederic Mistral, Charles Rieu, Alphonse Daudet y Pagnol, actualmente...hoy da simboliza la prisin provenzal de los escritores Frederic Mistral y Alphonse Daudet. Salpicados en la planicie, se aprecian...
- Baux de Provence: Respira ciudad aires del medievo.(De Viaje)
- Newspaper article from: El Norte (México D.F., México) June 8, 2003 700+ words
...por una generacin de grandes poetas provenzales, como Frederic Mistral, Charles Rieu, Alphonse Daudet y Pagnol, actualmente...que hoy simboliza la prisin provenzal de los escritores Frederic Mistral y Alphonse Daudet. Salpicadas en la planicie, se aprecian...
- French Romantica(TM) Roses Create 'Scentual' Sensation in American Gardens
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 25, 1998 700+ words
...and features a deep pink cabbage rose with sweet, "Rose de Mai" fragrance. This robust plant will reach six feet. Frederic Mistral(TM) "Meitebros" PPAF, named for the Nobel winning poet and writer, medium pink cup-shaped bloom with very potent...
- A Literary Guide to Provence.(Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Kaufmann, Linda M. August 1, 2001 700+ words
...people. However, Provence has also produced many regional authors, most of whom are not as well known abroad, including Frederic Mistral, who championed the use of the local Provencal language. Excerpts of letters and diaries and examples of poetry are included...
- Voices of Chile: Gabriela Mistral and Isabel Allende.
- Magazine article from: Faces: People, Places, and Cultures Lannom, Gloria W. December 1, 2002 700+ words
...writing poetry. She changed her name to Gabriela Mistral to honor two of her favorite poets, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Frederic Mistral. A relationship that ended tragically led Mistral to write Sonnets of Death (Sonetos de la Muerte). She was awarded...
- Recorra la casa de Nostradamus.(De Viaje)
- Newspaper article from: El Norte (México D.F., México) August 22, 1999 700+ words
...megalpolis del Mediterrneo. Se reproduce a personalidades de la regin como el pintor Paul Cezanne, los poetas Petrarca, Frederic Mistral, Alphonse Daudet, el Mtico Bonaparte as como celebridades contemporneas de la poltica, la realeza y el mundo del espectculo...
- Small wonders: cyclamen now come in more sizes and flower colors.(Northern...
- Magazine article from: Sunset Cohoon, Sharon January 1, 2004 700+ words
...Lucy Tolmach, director of horticulture at Filoli in Woodside, likes to plant: 'Double Delight' (white and red), 'Frederic Mistral' (pink), 'Just Joey' (buff orange), 'Marco Polo' (yellow), 'Mister Lincoln' (dark red), 'Peter Mayle...
- Salon de Provence: La casa de Nostradamus.(De Viaje)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) August 8, 1999 700+ words
...megalpolis del Mediterrneo. Se reproduce a personalidades de la regin como el pintor Paul Cezanne, los poetas Petrarca, Frederic Mistral, Alphonse Daudet, el Mtico Bonaparte as como celebridades contemporneas de la poltica, la realeza y el mundo del espectculo...
- Eamon Maher and Grace Neville (editors), France-Ireland: Anatomy of a...
- Magazine article from: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies Cooke, Dervila March 22, 2008 700+ words
...renaissance of Provencal literature and cultural identity in the mid-nineteenth century. This renaissance was spearheaded by Frederic Mistral (Yeats was later to compare Douglas Hyde to Mistral) along with six other poets initially, who formed a literary group...
