Harriet Welty Rochefort was born and raised in Shenandoah, Iowa. She earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her M.S.J from The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Author : she has written two nonfiction books. The first, French Toast , was published in 1999 by St. Martin's Press, and followed by French Fried, also published by St. Martin's Press, in March 2001. French Toast is a light-hearted but informative account of Franco-American cultural differences; French Fried is a humorous food memoir based on Rochefort's true experiences with her French family and her investigation into the world of French cuisine based on interviews and tastings with some of France's foremost sommeliers, bread and cheese makers. In May 2005 French Toast was published in French under the title : "French Toast - Heureuse comme une Américaine en France" (Happy as an American in France). A columnist, she currently contributes a monthly cyberspace Letter from Paris to The Paris Pages website. You can read some of them in her Paris Diary. As a speaker on Franco-American cultural differences, Harriet has addressed varied audiences in the U.S. and France, including the International Media Seminar, Elderhostel, The American Library, The Association of Americans Resident Overseas, The American Women's Group (Paris and Brussels), Missouri Southern University, Samaritan Institute (Chicago), The University of Wisconsin Conference on Taste, Terroir and Technology, etc. See upcoming events. A freelance journalist, Harriet has contributed articles on French business, travel, lifestyle and culture to top U.S. newspapers and magazines including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The International Herald Tribune and Time magazine where she worked as a stringer in the Paris bureau for almost a decade. See selected articles... and references (interviews). She is a member of the board of the Anglo-American Press Association (AAPA) in Paris. A teacher of journalism and English, Harriet taught journalism seminars to students at the I.E.P. (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris) for several years and English at Telecom and Ecole Polytechnique.

Mini-bio : After college, Harriet worked for a short time in the U.S. (including a stint checking hats and coats in the Fleur de Lys restaurant in San Francisco which she describes in her book French Fried) and then caught a freighter from Vera Cruz, Mexico to Cadiz, Spain. After a trek through Morocco and up through Spain to France, Harriet met her future French husband, Philippe,...and she has remained in France ever since. To know more about Harriet, why she came to Paris and why she stayed, read an interview by Terence Gelenter on his lively Paris Through Expatriate Eyes website. Harriet's books are available at all major U.S. bookstores and at amazon.com. In Paris, they can be found at W.H. Smith's, Brentano's and Gagliagni's.

Selected articles by Harriet Welty Rochefort....

Travel in France... Patrimoine and Art de Vivre in the Rhône-Alps, France Discovery Guide (From Roman ruins to the Belle Epoque) An idiosyncratic tour of Provence, France Discovery Guide (Keeping tradition alive : a miller, a santonnier and a potter in Provence) Normandy, (Discovering Normandy's boccages and beaches) Nantes, Time (Nantes gets ready for the World cup of soccer) Paris Music Museum, Museum International (Paris municipal slaughterhouse metamorphosed into a music city)

French society The French freak out over labor law reform... (about the huge demonstrations in Spring 2005), Paris Pages Lithe! Slender! French! (about French Women Don't Get Fat), Where The Rules of the Game - French preppies are bons, chics and a genre in demand, Time Don't Eat your Soup with a Fork and other conseils of French politesse, Paris Metro After 20 Years in France, Still Part of the Foreign Legion, (What's left to understand about the French?-Just about Everything) European Travel & Life French elections - The tie that binds ( the "French take" on U.S. elections), UPI Read Paris Toast, the diary of an American in Paris by the author of French Toast...

Selected articles about Harriet Welty Rochefort...

An interview with Harriet Welty Rochefort in conversation with Paris Through Expatriate Eyes (PTEE) director Terrance Gelenter (paris-expat.com/interviews/ Sept.2004) Stretching the dollar in the City of Light (The Seattle Times, June 18, 2004) By Carol Pucci

Say Fromage - The tricky task of finding good cheese in the City of Light (The Santa Fe New Mexican 8/15/2004 )

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