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Eating Eternity: Food, Art and Literature in France

“Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour,” 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 …

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