Remarkable Feasts: Adventures on the Food Trail from Baton Rouge to Old Peking

by Leslie Forbes

Gathers holiday recipes and menus from Louisiana, Thailand, France, Kashmir, Pakistan, China, Spain, Rajasthan, Mexico, and Canada

Genres: Cookbooks

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

"After dropping out of England's Royal College of Art without the Masters in Film and Design she had dropped out of studying physics and politics in Canada to get, Forbes won a talent contest at Vogue, where she worked as a designer until she couldn't stand fashion any more. She then became a designer for BBC-TV (once constructing a life-size working robot out of pasta) and the author of award-winning food/travel books including Table in Tuscany. A regular presenter/writer of BBC radio documentaries, since 1990 Forbes turned to fiction in 1995, when she wrote the internationally acclaimed thriller Bombay Ice, which wove Chaos Theory into a Bollywood remake of Shakespeare's Tempest. Her equally-acclaimed second and third novels, Fish, Blood & Bone and Waking Raphael (which 2003 Booker Prize chairman John Carey called "pretty well perfect"), also engage the ways in which science and art speak to each other. She is as involved with political and free-speech issues as she is with the relationship between art and science, and her writing is deeply inspired by her work as a volunteer "mentor" with refugee writers at the Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture."

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Reviews

[Tim]

A follow up to her earlier book, A Table in Provence.
Unlike that one this ones text is in print, not her handwriting or a font to resemble handwriting but is still illustrated by her.
Feasts is much more a travelogue with recipes than Provence and is no better or worse from being so.
You could quite easily read it as a book as use it as a cookbook.
Neither books have I seen in bookshops and my two were bought in charity shops. Whether they are both out of print I don't know.
If so it seems a pity that publishers seem to be interested only in the usual dross of TV inspired celebrity chefs cook books. Vast in size, huge unneccesary photographs sometimes showing the celebrity sweating over a hot stove, and highly overpriced.