Title: Balzac's omelette
Subtitle: a delicious tour of French food and culture with Honoré de Balzac
Description: Balzac uses food and the art of the table as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing more suggestively than money, appearances, and other more conventional trappings. Full of surprises and insights, "Balzac's Omelet" invites readers to taste anew Balzac's genius as a writer.
Subjects: Gastronomy in literature, Food habits, Criticism and interpretation, History, Miscellanea, Food in literature, Balzac, honore de, 1799-1850