Les Liaisons Culinaires - Hardcover

ANDREAS STAIKOS

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1860468020 ISBN 13: 9781860468025

Publisher: Harvill Press, 2001

Synopsis

Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover - Nana. What follows is the story of their competition to win Nana's heart through her appetite. As the plates pile up, and the recipes grow ever more mouth watering, a bizarre and comic duel develops, fought with sea-urchin salads, stuffed vine leaves and delicacies from all corners of the Aegean to win the consummate femme fatale or to end up with the sting in the tail...

About this title

About the Author:

Andreas Staikos, an Athenian, was born in 1944. He has written and directed several works for theatre and has also translated into Greek works by Marivaux, Moliere and other French classics from the eighteenth centuries. Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife teaches English language and literature in Athens and works as a translator.

Review:

"Delightfully written" * Canberra Times * "This is the most delicious book that you will ever read" * The Times * "A curvaceous little tale of a pair of suitors, Dimitris and Damocles, who vie for the favours of their mutual mistress through the medium of the mezze... Call it culinary onanism for Greek gastronomes. And, incidentally, the recipes are terrific" -- Elizabeth Luard * Good Book Guide * "If you are even just a tiny bit of a gourmand, and have a mischievous streak, surrender yourself to Andreas Staikos' amusing novel... the language is beautiful and lively, the love affair passionate and the recipes appetising" * L'Humanite *

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvill Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1860468020
• ISBN 13: 9781860468025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 106