A Mule in Rouen
Edition: Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: April 30, 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781843861638
Subjects: Food & Drink / Cookery; Travel writing; Travel
First sentence: Living in Brighton, the French connection is supplied by the oldest Channel crossing, between Newhaven and Dieppe.
Description: Follow the trail of our good mule as he discovers the town of Rouen.
A place of gothic splendour and cobbled streets unchanged through the passage of time. Discover Normandy as the cradle of Impressionist art, home to Maupassant and Madame Bovary. Sit at the Café Metropole as Sartre and De Beauvoir did before you. Glide through the apple blossom in countryside still peopled by artisan farmers, producers of sumptuous cheeses and calvados, confit de canard and boudin blanc. Follow the journey of an Englishman as he sets up a restaurant beside the little river Robec, in the old dyers quarter of town. Experience his encounters with a Kafkaesque state and the deeply mistrustful Rouennais. Set foot in every untrodden corner of Upper Normandy. A little local history tour that is good enough to eat.
Table of contents: title: Maps of Rouen & Upper Normandy. Ch. 1 'Getting There'. Ch. 2 'Of wars & waterways'. Ch. 3 'The fruit of the earth'. Photographs. Ch. 4 'Summer in Rouen'. Ch. 5 'Cooking for the french'. Ch.6 'Past masters'. Ch. 7 'A Mule in Brighton'.