Patricia Wells (born 5 November 1946 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a cookbook author^[1] and teacher.

She divides her time between Paris and Provence. She is the author of numerous food-related books.^[2] Her book Patricia Wells at Home in Provence (1996) won the James Beard Award for Best International Cookbook. Wells is the only American and the only woman to be a restaurant critic for a major French publication, L'Express (1988–1991).

She was the restaurant critic for the International Herald Tribune from 1980 until 2007.^[3]

• The Food Lover's Guide to Paris (1984)
• The Food Lover's Guide to France (1987)
• Bistro Cooking (1989)
• Simply French (1991)
• Patricia Wells' Trattoria (1993)
• Patricia Wells at Home in Provence (1996)
• L'Atélier of Joel Robuchon (1998)
• The Paris Cookbook (2001)
• The Provence Cookbook (2004)
• Vegetable Harvest (2007)
• We've Always Had Paris ... And Provence (2008) with Walter Wells
• Salad as a Meal (2011)