Eating Eternity
Food, Art and Literature in France
Published on 10. July 2017
273 pages
978-1-938450-94-5 (ISBN)
Description
"e;Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour,"e; wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon's most gifted advisor should speak so highly of eating says much about the importance of food in French culture. From the crumbs of a madeleine dipped in tisane that inspired Marcel Proust to the vast produce market where Emile Zola set one of his finest novels, the French have celebrated the relationship between art and food. Eating Eternity offers a seductive menu of those places in the French capital where art and food have intersected. Appendices guide you to the restaurant where Napoleon proposed to Josephine, the cafés patronized by Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Isadora Duncan and Man Ray, as well as those out-of-the-way sites that bring to life the culinary experience of Paris. Eating Eternity is an invaluable and unique guide to the art and food of Paris. Bon appetit!
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John Baxter is a writer, journalist and filmmaker; he has called Paris home since 1989. He is the author of numerous books including the autobiographical Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris, Chronicles of Old Paris: Exploring the Historic City of Light, The Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s and French Riviera and Its Artists.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Bon Appétit!
- Food as cultural symbol
- Chapter 2: Rules of the Hunt
- Aristocracy's sport finds its way into art
- Chapter 3: The Food of the Poor
- Don't enquire too closely about what goes into the sausage
- Chapter 4: Feasts at Versailles
- Roast peacock, larks' tongues in honey and Louis XIV performs for his guests
- Chapter 5: Fishing For Compliments
- François Vatel's suicide over the disgrace of the missing fish
- Chapter 6: Tools of the Trade
- But first, Louis XVI grabbed the choicest morsels with his fingers
- Chapter 7: Still Lives
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin influences Matisse, Cézanne and Picasso
- Chapter 8: The Dinner at Varennes
- Gourmand King Louis XVI becomes prisoner of innkeeper Monsieur Sauce
- Chapter 9: A Painter in a Pear Tree
- Cézanne conquers Paris with an apple
- Chapter 10: The Humbler Poisons
- "Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!" -Dom Pérignon
- Chapter 11: Cheese as a National Symbol
- "How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of cheese?"-Charles de Gaulle
- Chapter 12: The Rise of the Restaurant
- Still open: Le Grand Véfour, which served Victor Hugo, Napoleon, Josephine, George Sand, Colette and Jean Cocteau
- Chapter 13: The Blood of Life
- "I live on good soup, not on fine words"-Molière
- Chapter 14: An Army Runs On Its Stomach
- Dining with Napoleon Bonaparte
- Chapter 15: Absinthe, The Green Fairy
- "You see things as they really are"-Oscar Wilde
- Chapter 16: The Importance of Bread
- Jean-François Millet's The Gleaners
- Chapter 17: En Plein Air
- Lunch in the garden with Claude Monet
- Chapter 18: Comfort Food
- Henri Matisse's codfish paste and devil's potatoes
- Chapter 19: Setting Meals to Music
- Paris café life in the operas of Puccini and Rossini
- Chapter 20: The Zoo is On the Menu
- Voisin's Christmas feast of 1870
- Chapter 21: On The French Riviera
- Renoir, Colette, Picasso, Fitzgerald and Hemingway enjoy the flavors of the Côte d'Azur
- Chapter 22: Surreal Cannibals
- Dalí, Buñuel and cannibal fantasies
- Chapter 23: Coffee Time
- Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus at the Café de Flore, Modigliani at the Rotonde and Toulouse-Lautrec at the Rat Mort
- Chapter 24: Shaken But Not Stirred
- Add liquor, jazz and Josephine Baker
- Chapter 25: Melted Camembert and Limp Fried Eggs
- Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory
- Chapter 26: The Food Front
- Surviving the German Occupation by rationing, foraging and "Party Surprise"
- Chapter 27: The Chicken From Hell
- New French favorites from India, Russia, China and Vietnam
- Chapter 28: Stars of the Stove
- Carême and Escoffier to Soyer and Child
- Chapter 29: Food Heaven
- The culinary traditions of France
- A Gastronomical Paris
- Index
- About the Author
