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Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore de Balzac

✍️ Muhlstein, Anka
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🏛 Other Press (NY) 📅 2011 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781590514733

📝 Description: Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore de Balzac

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.

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