The Passionate Epicure: La Vie Et La Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet - Paperback
by Marcel Rouff
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marcel RouffSeries:Modern Library (Paperback)Publish date:2002-08-06Pages:208
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)ISBN-13:9780375760808ISBN-10:375760806UPC:9780375760808Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Biographical, Classics, HistoricalSize:8.00 x 5.18 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3395Product ID:SC4F2TQ256
In the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high arts: the art of food and the art of love. This edition contains a Preface by Lawrence Durrell and a new Intro-duction by Jeffrey Steingarten, the food critic for Vogue magazine and author of the bestselling book The Man Who Ate Everything.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)ISBN-13:9780375760808ISBN-10:375760806UPC:9780375760808Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Biographical, Classics, HistoricalSize:8.00 x 5.18 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.3395Product ID:SC4F2TQ256
Marcel Rouff was born in Geneva in 1877. He is the author of The Psychology of Taste and had a distinguished career as a gourmet writer, poet, dramatist, essayist, literary critic, chronicler of rural as well as Parisian society, and historian, collaborating with such luminaries as Jean Jaurès. He died in Paris in 1936.
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
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