Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (690 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590514734 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has translated nearly forty books including works by Agnès Desarthe, Amélie Nothomb, Frédéric Beigbeder, Véronique Ovaldé, and Catherine Millet, and has been short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize twice. She and her husband, Louis Begley, have written a book on Venice, Venice for Lovers. Sh
I’m a total food-history nerd, but I don’t think you’d need to be to enjoy what’s ultimately a treatise on the making of modern French culture.” —Sadie Stein, The Paris Review Daily“Anka Muhlstein folds wit into scholarship as easily as breaking an egg. And ultimately it has the effect of awakening your appetite for more than food…sending you back to the bookshelf to reread Balzac’s novels themselves.” –The East Hampton Star. “This effervescent volume celebrates Balzac’s use of gastronomy as a literary device and social critique.” —TheNew Yorker “Fabulous worth nibbling on, as prelude or accompaniment to the pièce de résistance, ‘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 trappings.Full of surprises and insights, Balzac’s Omelette invites you to taste anew Balzac’s genius as a writer and his deep understanding of the human condition, its ambitions, its flaws, and its cravings.. "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
Diminutive In Size, Grand In Scope There are many ways to enjoy this book. It's not just for Balzac enthusiasts and fanciers of French literature; it's also for Francophiles, food connoisseurs, oenophiles, history habitués, and people watchers. Muhlstein combines her astute observations into Balzac's characters with Balzac. Wandrwoman said Detailed and Scholarly Literary Analysis. My first assumption was that this small scale (approx. 6" x 7") hardcover book would be the perfect hostess gift. The sub-title: "A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore de Balzac" suggested a lovely little book that was beautifully illustrated and filled with fascinating and amu. This book is filled with fascinating information This book focuses on Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), one of France's greatest novelists, and the adage, which seems to be true, "Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are." It includes fascinating information about France during Balzac's lifetim