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 The Perfect Meal 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 06/29/2023
ISBN: 9780062088062
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.05h x 5.06w x 1.00d
Award: IACP Crystal Whisk Award - Winner

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 11/05/2012
Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 77
Booklist 02/01/2013 pg. 9
Shelf Awareness 03/12/2013