Pampille's Table: Recipes and Anecdotes from the French Countryside: From Marthe Daudet's Les Bons Plats de France

By: Daudets, Marthe

Book Overview

Inspired by references to the "delicious books of Pampille" in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, the veteran cookbook author Shirley King adapted this gastronomic gem of a book for the modern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571198899
• ISBN13: 9780571198894
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The Good Writing (and Recipes) of France

An utterly charming collection of french recipes. Pampille's remarkably fresh voice (she's much funnier and more sarcastic than I would have expected from a woman in 1919, which is a wonderful preconception to have challenged) introduces each of the regions of France and then gives local recipes. Some of them are a little old-fashioned and preposterous, but some seem totally doable and delicious. She opens with a description of "The Awful Dinner Party" and then proceeds to both honor and lambaste her countrymen and women. Not shy with her opinions, this book gives you a real sense of a time and place, and teaches you about cooking to boot.