White truffles in winter
Subtitle: a novel
By: N.M. Kelby
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780393079999
Subjects: Cooks; French Cooking; Fiction
Description: A reimagining of the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier. A man of contradictions, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry, Escoffier 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. A novel of the sensuality of food and love amid a world on the verge of war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-334).