Stories From The Kitchen

By: Various Authors

Book Overview

Stories from the Kitchen is a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by a rich variety of authors from Dickens, Chekhov and Saki to Isak Dinesen, Jim Crace and Amy Tan. The menu includes choice titbits from famous novels: the triumphant boeuf en daube served in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse , Proust's rhapsodic memories of watching the family cook prepare asparagus in Remembrance of Things Past , Zola's extravagant 'cheese symphony' scene from The Belly of Paris. Here are over-the-top amuse-bouches by Gerald Durrell, Nora Ephron and T. C. Boyle; a short story by famous food writer M. F. K. Fisher; and a delightful account of the perfect meal by eighteenth-century epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, who famously said 'Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.'

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841596191
• ISBN13: 9781841596198
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 1.3" x 4.9"