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Welcome
Welcome to writer Harriet Welty Rochefort's website. The author of "French Toast" and "French Fried", two humorous memoirs about her life in France,Harriet contributes articles on French lifestyle, culture and business to many leading U.S. publications and teaches journalism at a major French university.
Her lively lectures on Franco-American cultural differences are much in demand as are her array of informative and fun-filled wine and cheese events.
After frequenting "les beaux quartiers" of the upscale neighborhoods in the west of Paris, Harriet and husband Philippe now live in the hip east side, where they are the
proud owners of a city garden that's big enough to mow.
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Events and Activities
Public Speaking
A lively and popular speaker on Franco-American cultural differences, Harriet gives speeches and lectures to various clubs, student groups and professionals.
Wine and Cheese Tastings
A wine and cheese aficionado, Harriet offers a host of different events on some of France's 360 plus cheeses and the wines that accompany them.
Teaching
Harriet teaches a one-semester course called "Reporting on French Society" to students in the international journalism program at Sciences Po. |
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| About the Author |
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Harriet Welty Rochefort is an American freelance journalist, author, and lecturer who has lived in France since 1971.
Iowa-born and educated in the Midwest |
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(B.A. at the University of Michigan and M.S.J. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University), Harriet first traveled to the City of Light when she was an undergraduate – and was hooked from that moment on.
The reality of living in France soon became apparent. As Harriet struggled with everything from stuffing her groceries in flimsy plastic sacks by herself (no bag helpers in French groceries stores) to fending off ready-for-combat Parisian drivers, she realized that cultural differences really do exist and that to figure out the French, she needed to write down a laundry list of all the things she couldn't fathom about them.
The result was her first book « French Toast - An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French » published by St. Martin's Press.
Read more about Harriet Welty |
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Writings
As a freelance journalist, Harriet has written articles on French lifestyle, travel, culture and business for many leading publications, from Time magazine to the International Herald Tribune .
She writes a regular monthly Letter from Paris for The Paris Pages website and is a regular contributor to France Today , a magazine of French culture and travel.
And on this site only, she posts a " potpourri " of her writings about life in France and life in general. |
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Books |
French Toast is "wise and devastatingly funny" : The Los Angeles Times
French Fried is "lively and hilarious" : Alain Ducasse
"...as witty, charming and delightful as the author" : Charlie Trotter |
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 French Fried: The Culinary Capers of an American in Paris is a humorous food memoir based on the author's true experiences with her French family and her investigation into the world of French cuisine based on interviews and tastings with some of French foremost sommeliers, bread and cheese makers. It is, in sum, the story of one American woman's foray into the fascinating, complex and often byzantine world of French cuisine. Buy it today! |
 French Toast : An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French is a nonfiction narrative account of the French and why they are so….French:“Harriet writes from the perspective of one who has spent more than twenty years living among the French, with a French husband, French in-laws, and two half-French, half-American sons. Buy it today! |
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French Toast :
In 2005 the French version of Harriet 's best-selling book,"French toast" was published by Editions Ramsay. |
Copies are available from
Harriet or at amazon.com . Buy it today!
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