River." Care to argue? Part of the fun of The Debt to Pleasure is "France's least obvious and therefore most compelling wine Proclaims with the thunk of authority the Loire to be And not on food alone: See, forĮxample, his riff on the personalities of French rivers, which finally Groaning board of topics: odes to aioli, diktats on daubes, bulls onīouillabaisse, reveries on repasts past. Way Winot manages to be consistently absorbing and even ecstatic on a Onions-and their shallots and their elephant garlic. Strategy, it must be said that Winot and his creator know their Will twig pretty quickly to Lanchester's cleverly ironic narrative Than a few readers to the market and the kitchen. Mock-modest) self-assessments and discursive recipes that will send more Lectures with opinionated asides, erudite digressions, inflated (if He discourses over-knowledgeably on all things culinary, studding his Structured as a galloping gourmet's ramble through the seasons as That portmanteau genre, the novel-with-recipes, made so fashionable by "gastro-historico-psycho-autobiographico-anthropico-philosophic" tour de force The Debt to Pleasure, not disappoint, he even providesĪ Lanchestrian corollary to the Nabokovian proposition-and an educatedĪt a distance The Debt to Pleasure may look like the latest entry in Only does Tarquin Winot, the tart-tongued and mesmerizingly daft We've been counting on our murderers for a fancy prose style. Retrieved from Įver since Humbert Humbert made his indelible assertion in Lolita, MLA style: "The Debt to Pleasure." The Free Library.
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