Patricia Wells is an American journalist and author who has lived in France since 1980. Restaurant critic of the International Herald Tribune, she is the author of eleven books: "The Food Lover's Guide to Paris," "The Food Lover's Guide to France," "Bistro Cooking," "Simply French," "Patricia Wells' Trattoria," "L'Atélier de Joel Robuchon," "Patricia Wells at Home in Provence" (honored with the James Beard Award for Best International Cookbook), "The Paris Cookbook", "The Provence Cookbook", Vegetable Harvest and her lastest "We've always had Paris...and Provence."  Patricia is also the only foreigner and the only woman ever to be restaurant critic for a major French publication (L'Express).