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Are you a born to be a chef? What would you sacrifice for three Michelin stars? Long time foreign correspondent for Forbes, Richard Morais, has created a moving, sharply revealing, often amusing novel of a raucous upwardly striving tribe of larger than life eccentrics – Indian and French -- told through the reminiscences of Hassan Haji – the first foreign born chef to receive Michelin’s three stars. A cook and passionate gourmand, as well as a seasoned journalist, Morais seems to know as much as any exile or cook what it means to be an exile and a cook.And it isn’t just scents of spicy fish curry and “lip puckering crème de cassis” that will keep you hungrily turning these pages, it is the scent of rotting forest, the warmth of bread carried home from the boulangerie, the “fecund aroma of orchids and suckling pig,” the heat of love-making in the hours between lunch and dinner service.Certainly he is a keen observer of obsession. His imagined culinary nun, Madame Mallory, is the enraged nemesis of the Haji family and their exuberant Maison Mumbai in a quiet Alpine village directly across the street from her precious and perfect two-starred Le Saule Pleureur. She is both a fiery aven

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Author

Richard C. Morais [Morais, Richard C.]

Publisher

Scribner

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439165652

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Cooking

Rating

4.1 / 5 (5,655 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14