Companion of the American author and patron Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas (1877-1967) says she devoured recipe books for a long time - and this, long before she started cooking herself.
The same way her friend was captivated by murder stories.
To tell the truth, there is a bit of that in tabletop stories.
With age, the great gourmet that was Georges Simenon takes a hatred for gastronomy.
According to him, nothing other than
“the art of accommodating, for our greatest pleasure, the lives of others”
.
However, Maigret's father was hardly suspect of neglecting the
"roast pork with lentils, herring fillets, shoulders of mutton and other andouillettes, quiches, miroton beef or tripe à la mode de Caen..."
simmered by Madame Maigret for her great man, himself - a bit too much - a fan of
“mandarin-curaçao”
with which he rediscovered himself at the Brasserie Dauphine
(read “Mémoires de Maigret”
,
1950)
.
After enjoying eating and telling it, Simenon flogs himself.
"I have…
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