El meu jo gastronòmic

In 1929 M.F.K. Fisher left the United States to settle in France with her husband; there, he tastes authentic French cuisine for the first time and is introduced to a new way of eating, drinking and living. From anecdotes, meals with eccentric characters and humorous scenes around a table, and always against the background of the economic crisis of 1929 and the growing political tensions in Europe, Fisher explains the evolution of his insatiable hunger, from his native land to Europe, with solid, joyful and close prose. He describes meals that are seduction, education, diplomacy, and fellowship, and settings as diverse as a room above a patisserie, a Swiss farm, or an ocean cruise, and he divulges, with warmth and luminous intelligence, the pillars of his sentimental education at the same time that he enlightens us in the art of choosing and ordering correctly in a restaurant, in the pleasures of eating alone, without company, and in the need to feed not only the body but also the soul and the mind.