"Thomas Keller, chef/proprietor of the French Laundry in the Napa Valley is a wizard, a purist, a man obsessed with getting it right. And this, his first cookbook, is every bit as satisfying as a French Laundry meal itself: a series of small, impeccable, highly refined, intensely focused courses."--BOOK JACKET. "From innovative soup techniques, to the proper way to cook green vegetables, to secrets of great fish cookery, to the creation of breathtaking...

The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events. In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading to complete and utter ridicule.

Sol, a famous Argentine Tango performer, has lived in Buenos Aires for many years. Behind her excessive temper and her glowing smile, the Diva hides an injury from which she never really recovered: the loss of her only son, Raphaël.

With authors such as Voltaire, Honore De Balzac, Victor Hugo, and so many more, French literature can be as intimidating as it is spectacular. Hoping to spread admiration and knowledge about the French literary canon, H.A.L Fisher, a former president of the board of education and prominent historian, sought out Lytton Strachey to write a survey of French literature. After accepting the commission, Strachey exceeded the original expectations, crafting...

A delectable comedy about a gifted chocolate-maker with a case of paralyzing shyness who meets her soul mate when she gets a new job, but he too suffers from a similar affliction. In French with English subtitles.

In this sophisticated and sexy tale, a married woman in her 60s (French icon Fanny Ardant) tumbles into an affair with a much younger man.

From the introduction by Michael Hamburger: "Baudelaire's prose poems were written at long intervals during the last twelve or thirteen years of his life. The prose poem was a medium much suited to his habits and character. Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed...

«C'est que notre époque se trompe sur elle-même: elle se croit rationnelle et l'est fort mal; révolutionnaire, et n'est sans doute que totalitaire. Le totalitarisme, ce virus, rend les uns euphoriques de bien-être et les autres enragés de destruction. Que faire alors, pour le salut de l'homme? Que peut en particulier un poète, pour qui ce salut et la parole humaine ne font qu'un? La même chose, toujours : forcer accès à la lumière jusqu'au...

Concebido en los años de su madurez poética, El cementerio marino sintetiza los postulados estéticos de Paul Valéry, donde tanto música como intelecto representan la esencia y el fundamento de la poesía.

Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques is an 1884 cycle of poems by Belgian author Albert Giraud that revolves around the character of Pierrot and the universe of the Commedia dell'arte. Initially received with moderate success, the work was undeniably immortalized after Arnold Schönberg published the musicalization of its German translation in 1912. Since then, Pierrot Lunaire has been the source of inspiration for numerous works of art in all sorts...