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Honore De Balzac

Food for (Literary) Thought on Julia Child's Birthday

Dave Astor | Posted 10.15.2012 | Books
Read More: J.K. Rowling, Vegetarian, Darryl Brock, L.M. Montgomery, Charles Dickens, Upton Sinclair, Margaret Atwood, Honore De Balzac, Suzanne Collins, Julia Child, Novels, Food, Emile Zola, Alice Walker, Harry Potter, Joanne Harris, The Hunger Games, T.C. Boyle, Jeffrey Eugenides, Monty Python, Julia Child Birthday, Julia Child's Birthday, Books News
Dave Astor

With Aug. 15 being the 100th anniversary of Julia Child's birth, I figured a post about food in novels might be appropriate.

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Everybody Takes Tea Where? In London, England, The Promenade in The Dorchester Hotel

Mara Gibbs | Posted 10.11.2011 | Travel
Read More: Bernard-Paul Heroux, England, London, Honore De Balzac, The Dorchester, Scones, London Restaurant, Teatime, Darjeeling, The Promenade, Restaurant Reviews, Tea, Travel News
Mara Gibbs

Teatime is still a tradition that the Brits fight to keep safe and sound. This little tradition has its merits, especially when the tea is as delicate and interesting as the teas I tasted in my mini tea tasting at the Dorchester.

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The Best Two Half-Decades in Literary History

Dave Astor | Posted 10.08.2011 | Books
Read More: Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Bronte, William Thackeray, Classic Novels, Emily Bronte, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Theodore Dreiser, Herman Melville, Honore De Balzac, Charlotte Bronte, Five Year Plan, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Great Authors, Alexandre Dumas, Willa Cather, Thornton Wilder, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

They were unplanned "Five-Year Plans" for the ages: the amazing proliferation of classic novels published from 1846 to 1851 and from 1922 to 1927. And, believe it or not, one author had a book in both those periods!

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Rodin Sculpture Stolen From Israel Museum

AP | By ARON HELLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Sculpture of Honore De Balzac, Rodin Sculpture, Israel Museum Renovations, Israel Museum Sculpture, Honore De Balzac, Auguste Rodin, Auguste Rodin Sculpture of Honore De Balzac, Israel-Museum, Arts News

JERUSALEM -- A statue by French sculptor Auguste Rodin was stolen from the Israel Museum during the facility's recently completed renovation, the muse...

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Blast From the Past: Honoré de Balzac's New English Release, Treatise on Elegant Living

Caroline Hagood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Honore De Balzac, Style, Treatise on Elegant Living, Books News
Caroline Hagood

If Mark Twain thought clothes made the man, Honoré de Balzac seemed to believe they made the creative demigod.

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