{"product_id":"balzacs-omelette-a-delicious-tour-of-french-food-and-culture-with-honore-de-balzac-paperback","title":"Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnka Muhlstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdriana Hunter\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe acclaimed biographer offers a fresh, insightful view of Balzac's life, time, and works through the lens of food. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are.\" This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein's erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac's \u003ci\u003eThe Human Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e. Balzac uses them as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing more suggestively than money, appearances, and other more conventional trappings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFull of surprises and insights, \u003ci\u003eBalzac's Omelette\u003c\/i\u003e invites you to taste anew Balzac's genius as a writer and his deep understanding of the human condition, its ambitions, its flaws, and its cravings.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnka Muhlstein \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of biographies of Queen Victoria, James de Rothschild, and Cavelier de La Salle; studies on Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, and Anne of Austria; a double biography, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth I and Mary Stuart; Monsieur Proust's Library\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2015), \u003ci\u003eThe Pen and the Brush\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2017), and \u003ci\u003eCamille Pissarro \u003c\/i\u003e(Other Press, 2023). She won the Goncourt Prize for her biography of Astolphe de Custine, and has received two prizes from the Académie française. She and her husband, Louis Begley, are the authors of \u003ci\u003eVenice for Lovers. \u003c\/i\u003eThey live in New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdriana Hunter \u003c\/b\u003estudied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than ninety books, including Marc Petitjean's \u003ci\u003eThe Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e and Hervé Le Tellier's \u003ci\u003eThe Anomaly \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEléctrico W\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 6.9 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984497672493,"sku":"9781635425109","price":19.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/SOg-moi5h19781635425109.webp?v=1776096616","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/balzacs-omelette-a-delicious-tour-of-french-food-and-culture-with-honore-de-balzac-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}