TY - GEN AU - Muhlstein,Anka AU - Hunter,Adriana TI - Balzac's omelette : : a delicious tour of French food and culture with Honoré de Balzac SN - 9781590514733 AV - PQ 2178 M952b 2011 U1 - 843/.7 PY - 2011/// CY - New York : PB - Other Press, KW - Balzac, Honoré de, KW - Gastronomía en la literatura KW - Literatura francesa KW - Crítica e interpretación N1 - "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 N2 - 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 ER -