Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac
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"Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are." This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein's erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honor de Balzac's The Human Comedy. Balzac uses them 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1590514734
ISBN13:9781590514733
Release Date:October 2011
Publisher:Other Press (NY)
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 7.1"
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