Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Anka Muhlstein, Adriana Hunter (Translator)Publish date:8/12/2025Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Other Press (NY)ISBN-13:9781635425109ISBN-10:1635425107UPC:9781635425109Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, CookingBook Subcategory:Culinary, Literary Figures, Regional & CulturalBook Topic:FrenchSize:6.90 x 5.60 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCM9NF4NTC
Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac
The acclaimed biographer offers a fresh, insightful view of Balzac's life, time, and works through the lens of food. "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 Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy. Balzac uses them as a...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Other Press (NY)ISBN-13:9781635425109ISBN-10:1635425107UPC:9781635425109Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, CookingBook Subcategory:Culinary, Literary Figures, Regional & CulturalBook Topic:FrenchSize:6.90 x 5.60 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCM9NF4NTC
Anka Muhlstein is the author of biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, and Cavelier de La Salle; studies on Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, and Anne of Austria; a double biography, Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart; Monsieur Proust's Library (Other Press, 2015), The Pen and the Brush (Other Press, 2017), and Camille Pissarro (Other Press, 2023). She won the Goncourt Prize for her...
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