High Bonnet
A Novel of Epicurean Adventures
$25.80
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2001
Summary
The chef’s towering white toque, the high bonnet, is the mark of achievement to which every young sauce-stirrer aspires. Idwal Jones’s urbane novel follows the young provincial Jean as he attempts to master culinary art at the hands of Paris’s most distinguished chefs. Jean will win his high bonnet and the royal bearing that accompanies it - but not until he’s had many outrageous adventures, in the kitchen and out.
High Bonnet is a sly send-up of the seething politics, subtle…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375757563 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375757562 |
| Author: | Idwal Jones, Anthony Bourdain |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2001 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Food |
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Critics Review
“Exciting and entertaining…. It titillates most if not all of our overworked senses.” – M.F.K. Fisher
“Exciting and entertaining…. It titillates most if not all of our overworked senses.”
– M.F.K. Fisher
Idwal Jones
Idwal Jones was named Cordon Bleu Chef of the Wine and Food Society of Los Angeles. He was the author of the novels The Vineyard, Whistler’s Van, and China Boy and Other Tales. He died in 1964.
Ruth Reichl, editor of the Modern Library Food series, is the author of the bestselling Tender at the Bone and the forthcoming Comfort Me with Apples. Formerly the food critic of The New York Times, she is now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine.
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