Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac usa Irving Penn

Irving Penn

Available in a gently-aged Sunflower Seed Finish

Orange Flower

7" Round x 6-1/2"H Stoneware Planter w/ Saucer & Pattern

25"hWeight: 62 lbs

Balzac's Omelette: A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac usa Irving Penn"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 Muhlsteins erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honor de Balzacs The Human Comedy. 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