Gourmet rhapsody

By Muriel Barbery

Subjects: Gourmets, Vulgarity, Critics, Fiction, historical, Fiction, Paris (france), fiction

Description: A great food critic who can make or destroy the reputation of a chef with a stroke of his pen, Pierre Arthens faces his imminent death by trying to recall the one perfect flavor he sampled in his youth, a flavor that he believes forms the ultimate truth of his life.