Plats du Jour

In this glorious culinary ramble, gastronome William Black travels the length and breadth of France seeking out the best food the country has to offer.His dedication to the culinary cause knows no bounds as he eats French Revolutionary cake, listens to miners extol the virtues of dried cod, shares a table with the country’s most brilliant chef and muses on France and its world-famous obsession with fine food.Bursting with sunshine, alluring smells and authentic flavours, Plats du Jour brings you the heart and soul of France as Black takes a highly entertaining and at times irreverent journey to the heart of the world’s greatest culinary tradition.‘The author is a veteran of the eat-your-way across the map genre, and this book about France is witty and thoughtful, redolent with garlic and goose fat’ The Times‘[Black] writes in an attractive, light-hearted and amusing style which belies the extensive and intensive research which must have gone into the writing’ TribuneBlack, William is the author of 'Plats du Jour' with ISBN 9780552154604 and ISBN 0552154601.