Cooking in the Wrong Century
Teresa Präauer
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
For the hostess, food has always been about growing up. From the pancakes your grandmother made you, dolloped with jam, to the salty glug of your first oyster. Now, poised at the brink of midlife, the hostess prepares for a dinner party in her new apartment. With a hunger for the finer things in life, she folds linen napkins into neat triangles, arranges wildflowers for the table and puts on a jazz playlist the projects effortless cool.But her composure begins to falter when her guests arrive drunk and late, downing bottles of her perfectly cooled wine and trailing water over the floor. Here comes the chain-smoking professor who never says the right thing, the husband glued to his smartphone, the wife who makes a secret pass at your boyfriend.As small talk and social preening give way to sexual tension and lost inhibitions, the hostess struggles to maintain control over an evening far beyond her wildest imaginings.
Kundenbewertungen
social satire, adultery, drunk guests, hosting, coming of age, fine dining, books about class, ottolenghi, new apartment, sexual tensions, translated fiction, dinner party, literary fiction, cooking, middle age, cremant, austrian author, social striving, food writing, experimental fiction