Meet the Author

Come join James Beard Award-winning food writer and author, Steve Hoffman, to talk about his new book, A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France.

Steve will talk about the challenges of adjusting to life in a tiny, hot, insular, southern French winemaking village with his American family. He will talk about his children's experiences attending local French écoles primaires and collèges, after elementary careers in American French Immersion schools. He will talk about his self-administered education in Mediterranean food and cooking, and his experiences picking grapes and working in a village winery in the heart of rural Languedoc--the "largest vineyard in the world."

Steve Hoffman is a Minnesota tax preparer and food writer, as well as a French speaker and shameless Francophile. His writing has won multiple awards, including the 2019 James Beard M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. He has been published in Food & Wine,…