Wednesday, August 02, 2006
(9:21 PM) | Amish Lovelock:
Amish Lovelock's Height of Good Taste
I was hoping to get "Height of Good Taste" out once a week on a Saturday but due to welcome business I missed last Saturday and due to yet more welcome business this Satuday I'm going to have to post early to keep the promises of a regular spot. So, without further ado, here is "Height of Good Taste" part two.This week I thought I'd stimulate everybody's tastebuds with an extract from one of the best novels about food (and murder, and art) I've read in a long time. A link to an extract then from John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure, a sublime novel about an arrogant little fig named Tarquin Winot. Enjoy!
...The town, Paris; the restaurant, La Coupole; the cast of characters, my mother and me and our Parisian public and an attendant chorus of bustling solicitous waiters; the meal, a fish soup.... It may have been in those moments that food crystallized for me as a lifelong passion, and that a commitment to a particular modus vivendi was decided, as she smiled at me across the remains of the tureened soup and devastated rouille and said: "One day, Chéri, I am sure you will do great things."
