Andrew Todhunter

Here's an interesting idea for a book: Go to an exclusive French restaurant, indulge in a long and pricey meal, and then write about it. That's it. That's this book. It is a course by course description of a single meal. Todhunter tells about the food and the service and the restaurant and the chefs and wanders around here and there into all sorts of fascinating tangentially related topics. A fun quick read.

A meditation on food and on the art of cooking. Todhunter describes a meal at a top-rated Parisian restaurant course by course, interspersed with his observations from working in the restaurant's kitchen.