Dining with Marcel Proust - A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque

Dining with Marcel Proust - A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque by King, Shirley. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780500012123.

Marcel Prousts literary masterpiece à la recherche du temps perdu overflows with brilliant, minutely described accounts of food and drink drawn from the authors vivid memories. After all, it was the taste of one of those short, plump little cakes called petites madeleines, dipped into a cup of tea, that first impelled Proust into â a remembrance of things past.â He wrote with relish and exactitude about Françoise, the family cook in Illiers-Combray, the restaurant at the Grand Hôtel Balbec, meals at Rivebelle, La Raspelière, and the Guermantes in Paris. Shirley King, a professional chef and lifelong lover of Prousts works, was inspired to draw these two strands together into this tribute to a master: a collection of recipes representing the best of classical French cuisine from Prousts belle Ãpoque, ranging from the sophisticated elaboration of lobster à lamÃricaine or truffled partridge to the simplicity of croque-monsieur. King combines practical instruction, quotations from Prousts works, and rich illustrations in a way that will charm every lover of Proust and every cook.