Market Day in Provence

Foreword to the American Edition, by Jack Katz
Introduction

Part I - The Market Stage
Chapter 1 City Tour
Chapter 2 Well-Ordered Chaos

Part II - An Economy of Enticement
Chapter 3 The Art of Taking One’s Time
Chapter 4 Familiar Strangers
Chapter 5 Delights of Free Trade

Part III - Commerce of the Imaginary
Chapter 6 “The customer doesn’t go by price here”
Chapter 7 “Pumpkins are rounder at the market”
Chapter 8 “Let me have some pâté, but your pâté”
Chapter 9 “I sell Provence”
Chapter 10 Ordinary Authenticity
Chapter 11 The Truffle Circle

Part IV - Pleasure of the Agora
Chapter 12 Equality of Opportunity
Chapter 13 All at the Market, All in the Same Boat
Chapter 14 In Full View
Chapter 15 Generalized Friendship

Part V - Identity on Offer
Chapter 16 “Do you still make those little caillettes of yours?”
Chapter 17 In the Forebears’ Footsteps

Conclusion: A Moment of Utopia
Notes
Index