High Bonnet

A Novel of Epicurean Adventures

Idwal Jones, Anthony Bourdain

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Modern Library Inc
15 June 2001

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Food

The chef's towering white toque, the high bonnet, is the mark of achievement to which every young sauce-stirrer aspires. Idwal Jones's urbane novel follows the young provincial Jean as he attempts to master culinary art at the hands of Paris's most distinguished chefs.

Jean will win his high bonnet and the royal bearing that accompanies it - but not until he's had many outrageous adventures, in the kitchen and out.

High Bonnet is a sly send-up of the seething politics, subtle artistry, and enslavement to the palate that constitute life behind the kitchen's swinging doors. First published in 1945 and out of print for more than four decades, High Bonnet will delight readers of Anthony Bourdain's bestselling Kitchen Confidential or of Ludwig Bemelmans's Hotel Splendide.

By: Idwal Jones
Introduction by: Anthony Bourdain
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 198g
ISBN: 9780375757563
ISBN 10: 0375757562
Series: Modern Library Food
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 15 June 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Idwal Jones was named Cordon Bleu Chef of the Wine and Food Society of Los Angeles. He was the author of the novels The Vineyard, Whistler's Van, and China Boy and Other Tales. He died in 1964. Ruth Reichl, editor of the Modern Library Food series, is the author of the bestselling Tender at the Bone and the forthcoming Comfort Me with Apples. Formerly the food critic of The New York Times, she is now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine.

Reviews for High Bonnet: A Novel of Epicurean Adventures

Exciting and entertaining.... It titillates most if not all of our overworked senses. -- M.F.K. Fisher Exciting and entertaining.... It titillates most if not all of our overworked senses. -- M.F.K. Fisher