Book review ~ “The Hundred Foot Journey” by Richard C.Morais

I had just watched the movie “The hundred foot journey” ( and a bit backwards and in the credits) realized that this is originally written as a culinary novel. Now i must find the novel. In the movie Hassan receives french cook books. These books expand his knowledge of culinary basics. My curiosity needed to know. What books.

I devoured the hundred foot journey. The kitchens in Mumbai, London and Lumiere descriptively painted. the novel is a wondrous culinary journey. The first glimpse of a culinary book are owned by the challenging Chef Madame Mallory. Madame Mallory is a “chef’s chef ” with precise rigorous intellectual approach to french classic cuisine. A “classicist by education and instinct”. A rare collection of cook books consumed her attic rooms. In her library are “The De Re Coquinqria” (collection of Roman cookery recipes reconstructing the Mediterranean basin dietary habits, thought to have been compiled in vulgar Latin the 1st century AD),  a 1907 version of Margaridou: the journal of an Auvergne Cook (french cookery bible 1932) and Larousse Gastronomique (the French gourmand’s Bible 1938). Culinary book fact check: legit .

However, these are bibles. Not basic cook books to transform and expand culinary repertoires. The question remains. What book. I will have to watch the movie again to catch.

ISBN 978-1-4391-6564-5