Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books

A brilliant & witty collection of writing about food & literature. A highly original & macabre selection -- with a strong Slavic/Balkan flavor -- it's an often surreal look at the whimsical & even comical realm of the pleasures & displeasures of the table. In these pieces, everything from olives to toffee is used to evoke emotions, characters, or events. Whether it's Turgenev on cleaning shoes with bread crumbs, a midnight snack with Rossini, George Sand sleepwalking into breakfast, Balzac succumbing to the fatal attraction of his coffeepot -- the reader will be astonished to see food & its rituals in daring new ways.Gordon, Karen Elizabeth is the author of 'Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books' with ISBN 9780788167928 and ISBN 0788167928.