About the Book: Debt To Pleasure
With an introduction by John Banville
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.
To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to
the world; to like something is to succumb, in a small but contentful way, to
death.
Tarquin Winot-hedonist, food obsessive, ironist and snob-travels a circuitous
route from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. Along
the way he tells the story of his childhood and beyond through a series of
delectable menus, organized by season. But this is no ordinary cookbook, and as
we are drawn into Tarquins