Dining with Marcel Proust and Pampille’s Table by Shirley King

“The At Table series published by the University of Nebraska Press provides several welcome additions to the culinary library. Shirley King’s Dining with Marcel Proust, first published in 1979, is a natural, given what even someone
who has not read Proust knows about him: master of the evocative, sensory life and, of course, the source of that famous passage about those madeleines. . . . King has translated the work of one author spoken of with reverence by Proust: Marthe Daudet, author of the 1919 Les Bons Plats de France. King has adapted the work for 21st-century kitchens and renamed it Pampille’s Table. . . . Daudet’s wry observations make this cookbook a treat to read. . . . For those who would like to try French cooking or wish to improve their repertoire, Daudet is a wonderful guide and culinary philosopher.”—Kay Ackerman, Bloomsbury Review