Balzac's omelette : a delicious tour of French food and culture with Honoré de Balzac /
Muhlstein, Anka, 1935-
Balzac's omelette : a delicious tour of French food and culture with Honoré de Balzac / Anka Muhlstein ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter - New York : Other Press, 2011. - xvi, 230 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
"Originally published in French as Garçon, un cent d'huîtres, Balzac et la table by Odile Jacob in 2010."
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
9781590514733 1590514734
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 --Crítica e interpretación
Gastronomía en la literatura
Literatura francesa --Crítica e interpretación
PQ 2178 / M952b 2011
843/.7
Balzac's omelette : a delicious tour of French food and culture with Honoré de Balzac / Anka Muhlstein ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter - New York : Other Press, 2011. - xvi, 230 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
"Originally published in French as Garçon, un cent d'huîtres, Balzac et la table by Odile Jacob in 2010."
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
9781590514733 1590514734
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 --Crítica e interpretación
Gastronomía en la literatura
Literatura francesa --Crítica e interpretación
PQ 2178 / M952b 2011
843/.7