The Passionate Epicure: La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet (Modern Library (Paperback)) - Softcover

Rouff, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375760806 ISBN 13: 9780375760808

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2002

Synopsis

In the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high arts: the art of food and the art of love. This edition contains a Preface by Lawrence Durrell and a new Intro-duction by Jeffrey Steingarten, the food critic for Vogue magazine and author of the bestselling book The Man Who Ate Everything.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“A little masterpiece.”
—from the Preface by Lawrence Durrell

“Some of the finest and most enticing writing about food you’ll ever find.”
—From the Introduction by Jeffrey Steingarten

About the Author:

Marcel Rouff was born in Geneva in 1877. He is the author of The Psychology of Taste and had a distinguished career as a gourmet writer, poet, dramatist, essayist, literary critic, chronicler of rural as well as Parisian society, and historian, collaborating with such luminaries as Jean Jaurès. He died in Paris in 1936.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375760806
• ISBN 13: 9780375760808
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208