Dining with Marcel Proust - A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque

By Shirley King

Book Overview

Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece la recherche du temps perdu overflows with brilliant, minutely described accounts of food and drink drawn from the author's vivid memories. After all, it was the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500012121
• ISBN13: 9780500012123
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This should become a philosophy...

Since applying the lessons learned here at dinner, I have become increasingly popular among the culinary set. Who would have ever thought that cooking verbose recipes and reading equally lengthy prose could sound so seductive. As Shakespeare famously said, "prose before ho's". I recommend this book to any bachelor with a stove and the ability to read.