The Hundred-Foot Journey….By Richard C. Morais
I loved this book and I read it on the beach over the Christmas holidays…Although the ending should have been edited by about 2 chapters! “This charming, funny and compulsively readable novel is a delicious tale of restaurant rivalry, the desperate quest for Michelin Stars and the hundred-foot distance between a new Indian kitchen and a traditional French restaurant in Paris.
Abbas Haji is the proud owner of a modest family restaurant in Mumbai. But when tragedy strikes, Abbas propels his boisterous family into a picaresque journey across Europe, finally settling in the remote French village of Lumiere, where he establishes an Indian restaurant, Maison Mumbai.
This vivid, hilarious and charming novel - about how just a small distance of a hundred feet can represent the gulf between different cultures, different people, their tastes and their destinies - is simply bursting with eccentric characters, delicious flavours and high emotion.
Morais has worked at Forbes magazine for 25 years where he has interviewed everyone from Lula da Silva and Tony Blair to Vaclav Klaus. His first novel is an homage to his friend, film producer the late Ismail Merchant, who died before the book was finished. The film of the book is now in production.
‘Outstanding! I wished it went on for another three hundred pages.’ - Anthony Bourdain
‘I have never experienced that most subtle of senses - smell - captured so well in print. The aroma of fine cooking just floats off the pages. Don’t read this book if you’re hungry. You might eat it.’ - Simon Beaufoy, Oscar-Award-winning screenwriter, Slumdog Millionaire
$27.99 Australian Pub: December 2010 Allenandunwin.com
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