The Debt to Pleasure

by John Lanchester

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Whitbread (First Novel, 1996)

Hawthornden Prize (1997)

Betty Trask Prize (1996)

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This is not a conventional cookbook.

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I myself have always disliked being called a 'genius.' It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit and avoid this term.

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Amazon.com (ISBN 0312420366, Paperback)

A gorgeous, dark, and sensuous book that is part cookbook, part novel, part eccentric philosophical treatise, reminiscent of perhaps the greatest of all books on food, Jean-Anthelme Brillat Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Join Tarquin Winot as he embarks on a journey of the senses, regaling us with his wickedly funny, poisonously opinionated meditations on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of a menu, from the perverse history of the peach to the brutalization of the palate, from cheese as "the corpse of milk" to the binding action of blood.

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