Patricia Wells

Author Profile

Patricia Wells is a cookbook author and teacher who divides her time between Paris and Provence. Her book Patricia Wells at Home in Provence (1996) won the James Beard 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 (1988–1991). She was also a restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune from 1980 until 2007. She teachers cooking classes in Paris and several weeks a year Patricia and Walter Wells open their 18th century Provençal home for personalized cooking classes for a small number of participants eager to share in the food, wine, and culture of one of France’s most blessed regions. (www.patriciawells.com)

Photograph, Stephen Ellison

Website: http://www.patriciawells.com/

Cookbooks by Patricia Wells