Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 6:00pm
White Truffles in Winter
imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier
(1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at
the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions—kind yet imperious,
food-obsessed yet rarely hungry—Escoffier was also torn between two
women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and
his wife, the independent and sublime poet Delphine Daffis, who refused
ever to leave Monte Carlo. In the last year of Escoffier's life, in the
middle of writing his memoirs, he has returned to Delphine, who requests
a dish in her name as he has honored Bernhardt, Queen Victoria, and
many others. How does one define the complexity of love on a single
plate? N. M. Kelby brings us the sensuality of food and love amid a
world on the verge of war in this work that shimmers with beauty and
longing.
Event address:
160 Courthouse Sq
38655-3914 Oxford
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