  | Book Details Title: Of Morsels and Marvels (The Africa List) |
Book DescriptionReview “Both Condé’s writing and her food transcend[s] national or cultural delineation. With Of Morsels and Marvels, she presents an alternative to the standard culinary memoir, committing an even greater ‘crime of treason’ than that of comparing writing to cooking: She asserts food writing’s rightful place among the literary arts. Both the genre and its readers are all the richer for it.”, New York Times”The reader is treated to a series of reflections on the role of food in the author’s life, interspersed with observations from her travels. . . . The memoir’s refrain is Condé’s conviction that cooking is a profound art, as revelatory of culture, as inventively brilliant, and potentially as liberating, as writing, painting or music.” , Times Literary Supplement”Condé’s narrative is replete with entertaining stories of great meals and conversations shared with people all over the world. Her travels to far-flung lands are related in terms that are full of color, poetry, and wry humor. An honest, forthright, and entertaining travelogue, Of Morsels and Marvels imparts a real taste of the world.”, Foreword Reviews”For the 2018 Alternative Nobel Prize winner, the process of cooking is on par with writing. This volume, an enchanting culinary and literary journey of the author’s travels to India, Indonesia, and South Africa, is not your regular recipe book.”, Huffington Post Read more About the Author Maryse Condé is one of the French Caribbean’s most beloved voices. Her many novels and plays published in English include Heremakhonon, Segu, I Tituba Black Witch of Salem, Crossing the Mangrove, Windward Heights, and Victoire, My Mother’s Mother. She is professor emerita of Columbia University and divides her time between Paris and Gordes in the South of France. Richard Philcox is Condé’s husband and translator. He has also published new translations of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. Read more Customers Review:It’s always a marvel when I come upon an intriguing new writer, to me anyway. What’s even more wonderful is when that writer takes up food and cooking as the main topic in their work. And Maryse Condé is one of those writers. The free-flowing writing style and the revelations of her thoughts and feelings make Ms. Condé’s book an absolute joy to read. A true woman of the world, the author invites the reader to jump on her magic carpet, as it were, and explore.This is one ride you won’t want to pass up. | |
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