Dodin Bouffant est un ancien magistrat à la retraite dans une petite ville du Jura. Il est renommé comme gastronome émérite, pour son goût raffiné en matière de haute cuisine, sachant marier artistiquement les saveurs. Seuls quelques privilégiés et disciples épicuriens sont invités régulièrement à sa table...
Set against the backdrop of a tropical storm, Captain L'Herbaudière finds himself in a utopian society that has abandoned money and technology for over two millennia. However, this seemingly perfect world harbors a dark secret: the Accursed, a prison-state for those who resist its ideals. L'Herbaudière's presence challenges the stability of this Inverted World, raising questions about freedom, societal norms, and the cost of utopia.
In the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure , Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high the art of food and the art of love. This edition contains a Preface by Lawrence Durrell and a new Intro-duction by Jeffrey Steingarten, the food critic for Vogue magazine and author of the bestselling book The Man Who Ate Everything .