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Balzac's omelette : a delicious tour of French food and culture with Honoré de Balzac / Anka Muhlstein ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter

By:

Muhlstein, Anka

Contributor(s):

Hunter, Adriana

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Other Press , c2011.Description: xvi, 230 p. : ill., map ; 19 cmISBN:

9781590514733

Uniform titles:

Garçon, un cent d'huîtres, Balzac et la table . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

843.7 BAL

LOC classification:

PQ2178 .M8413 2011

Contents:

Balzac at mealtimes -- Paris at mealtimes -- Great occasions -- Family life -- The misers and the food worshippers -- A young peach, a soufflé, and a towering dessert.

Summary: Balzac uses food and the art of the table as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing more suggestively than money, appearances, and other more conventional trappings. Full of surprises and insights, "Balzac's Omelet" invites readers to taste anew Balzac's genius as a writer.

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"Originally published in French as Garçon, un cent d'huîtres, Balzac et la table by Odile Jacob in 2010."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228).

Balzac at mealtimes -- Paris at mealtimes -- Great occasions -- Family life -- The misers and the food worshippers -- A young peach, a soufflé, and a towering dessert.

Balzac uses food and the art of the table as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing more suggestively than money, appearances, and other more conventional trappings. Full of surprises and insights, "Balzac's Omelet" invites readers to taste anew Balzac's genius as a writer.

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