num_pages: 334
description: A breathtaking novel rare and moving about the world's greatest chef and his unruly heart. White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictionskind yet imperious food-obsessed yet rarely hungryEscoffier was also torn between two women: the famous beautiful and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and his wife the independent and sublime poet Delphine Daffis who refused ever to leave Monte Carlo. In the last year of Escoffier's life in the middle of writing his memoirs he has returned to Delphine who requests a dish in her name as he has honored Bernhardt Queen Victoria and many others. How does one define the complexity of love on a single plate? N. M. Kelby brings us the sensuality of food and love amid a world on the verge of war in this work that shimmers with beauty and longing.
language: English
title: White Truffles in Winter
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company