The Cuisine of Marguerite Duras
Jojo Tulloh
isbn 978 0 9935135 3 4
28pp210 × 148 mm
Full Colour on 170gsm Essential Offset
First printing of 250
July 2019
£6
For Marguerite Duras the stakes are always high. She wrote novels, drank, made movies, loved, drank a bit more. Somehow, she also had time to cook. The Cuisine of Marguerite Duras explores the recipes she kept in a little red notebook in her kitchen, never before translated into English.
Is cooking a worthy subject? Marguerite Duras thought so, declaring
Do you want to know why I cook? Because I enjoy it very much... It’s the antinomy of writing, but somehow we’re in the same solitude when we cook, and the same inventiveness. We’re an author...
Illustrated with paintings by Katherine Tulloh after stills from Duras’ enigmatic film Nathalie Granger (1927).