In the classic French novel <b>The Passionate Epicure</b>, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high arts: 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 <i>Vogue</i> magazine and author of the bestselling book <b>The Man Who Ate Everything</b>.