About the Book: The 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