IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel)
“Full of humor, insight, and mouth-watering details,
The Perfect Meal
is a delightful tour of traditional French culture and cuisine.” —
Travel and Leisure
John Baxter's
is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great gastronomic delights before they disappear completely.
Some of the most revered and complex elements of French cuisine are in danger of disappearing as old ways of agriculture, butchering, and cooking fade and are forgotten. In this charming culinary travel memoir, John Baxter follows up his bestselling
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
by taking his readers on the hunt for some of the most delicious and bizarre endangered foods of France.
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France
is the perfect read for foodies and Francophiles, cooks and gastronomists, and fans of food culture.