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Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Louis Begley
and Anka Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In Venice for
Lovers, the couple has fashioned an homage to the City of Water. In
her essay, Muhlstein charmingly describes how becoming friends with
restaurateurs has been an unsurpassed means of getting to know the
city and its inhabitants--Venetians like Ernesto, whose restaurant
they have dinner in every night for many years, and who tells them
of the great flood that nearly destroyed the beautiful city. They
spend blissful hours at Da Fiore, named by The International Herald
Tribune one of the ten best restaurants in the world but which
retains its rustic simplicity.
The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a
brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the
world's most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a
wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in
all walks of life, including the Czar himself, offers vivid
descriptions of St. Petersburg and Moscow, of life at court and on
the street, and of the impoverished Russian countryside. But
together with a wealth of sharply delineated incident and detail,
Custine's great work also presents an indelible picture--roundly
denounced by both Czarist and Communist regimes--of a country
crushed by despotism and "intoxicated with slavery."
'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 Honore de Balzac's writings. It is not a coincidence that Balzac was the first in French literature to tackle this appetizing topic. Before the French Revolution, a traveller in France was apt to find local food scarce, tasteless, and of doubtful appearance. Restaurants did not even exist! Just as the art of the table became a centrepiece of French mores, Balzac used it as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing. Full of surprise and insights, "Balzac's Omelette" invites you to taste a new French literature and cuisine.
Each year of their 30-year marriage, Louis Begley, the award-winning author of Wartime Lies, and his wife Anka Muhlstein have spent long, enjoyable months in Venice. They write and live there and over the decades La Serenissima has become their second home. The owners of their favourite restaurants have become their friends and they share the lives of the locals, far off the welltrodden tourist track. Begley tells the story of how he fell in love with and in Venice, though as he makes clear when writing on Venice's pivitol role in world literature, he was not the only one - Henry James, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann are only three of his most illustrious predecessors.
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