The Passionate Epicure: La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet -- Marcel Rouff, Paperback

In the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high arts: the art of food and the art of love. This edition contains a Preface by Lawrence Durrell and a new Intro-duction by Jeffrey Steingarten, the food critic for Vogue magazine and author of the bestselling book The Man Who Ate Everything.

Author: Marcel Rouff
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 08/06/2002
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.18w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780375760808

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/27/2002 pg. 28
New Yorker (The) 01/20/2003 pg. 90

About the Author
Marcel Rouff was born in Geneva in 1877. He is the author of The Psychology of Taste and had a distinguished career as a gourmet writer, poet, dramatist, essayist, literary critic, chronicler of rural as well as Parisian society, and historian, collaborating with such luminaries as Jean Jaurès. He died in Paris in 1936.