Paying Attention in Quercy

pamela petro is a fulltime writer in Northampton, Massachusetts. She came to love the food——and the wine——of Quercy while researching her third work of travel literature, The Slow Breath of Stone: A Romanesque Love Story (Fourth Estate, London, 2005). The book uses food, photography, sculpture, and geology to tell the story of twin pilgrimages. Petro's most recent publication is ““Jim Magee's Hill”” (Granta, July 2008).