A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France - Hardcoverby Steve Hoffman (Author) In this poignant, delicious memoir, American tax preparer and food writer Steve Hoffman tells the story of how he and his family move to the French countryside, where the locals upend everything he knows about food, wine, and learning how to belong. Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable middle aged Minnesotan man who has always been desperately, pretentiously in love with France, more specifically with the idea of France.