The Debt to Pleasure - Softcover

Lanchester, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771045875 ISBN 13: 9780771045875

Publisher: Emblem Editions, 1997

Synopsis

This cookbook in the form of a novel follows the narrator on a spiritual journey and an adventure of the senses. He meditates on such matters as Camembert and the French Revolution, sheppmeat and Islam, the erotics of dislike, and the history of the peach. Simultaneous hardcover release from Henry Holt. 2 cassettes.

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Review:

A gorgeous, dark, and sensuous book that is part cookbook, part novel, part eccentric philosophical treatise, reminiscent of perhaps the greatest of all books on food, Jean-Anthelme Brillat Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Join Tarquin Winot as he embarks on a journey of the senses, regaling us with his wickedly funny, poisonously opinionated meditations on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of a menu, from the perverse history of the peach to the brutalization of the palate, from cheese as "the corpse of milk" to the binding action of blood.

About the Author:

John Lanchesterwas the deputy editor of the London Review of Books and the restaurant critic for the London Observer. He is the author of a second novel, Mr. Phillips, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Emblem Editions
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0771045875
• ISBN 13: 9780771045875
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272