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Post by readerpro on Feb 15, 2013 20:59:39 GMT
Hi Readers, There is a story I read in the 60s I am trying to find. It was in a Hitchcock Anthology of the period. It is about a gastronome who roams Paris searching out the very finiest in delicacies. The writing style is captivating: I've remembered this one for forty years! It's not that story about two guys visiting a New York restaurant, Sbirro's, I think. This one takes place in Paris and I think the connoisseur falls in love with every talented cook he meets whether she is fat or ugly or whatever but I think the last one does him in, something like that. Please email me if you can identify this one. Thanks!@ erminiver@yahoo.com
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 15, 2013 22:35:51 GMT
Hi Readers, There is a story I read in the 60s I am trying to find. It was in a Hitchcock Anthology of the period. It is about a gastronome who roams Paris searching out the very finiest in delicacies. The writing style is captivating: I've remembered this one for forty years! It's not that story about two guys visiting a New York restaurant, Sbirro's, I think. This one takes place in Paris and I think the connoisseur falls in love with every talented cook he meets whether she is fat or ugly or whatever but I think the last one does him in, something like that. Please email me if you can identify this one. Thanks!@ erminiver@yahoo.com The first one is Stanley Ellin's Specialty of the House and for some weird reason I think the other might be by someone with literary credentials like G. K. Chesterton or Greene or Somerset Maugham. Extremely annoying becasue I've read it too and I think it was in a green penguin paperback edition. |
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Post by doug on Feb 16, 2013 16:02:53 GMT
Hi Readers, There is a story I read in the 60s I am trying to find. It was in a Hitchcock Anthology of the period. It is about a gastronome who roams Paris searching out the very finiest in delicacies. The writing style is captivating: I've remembered this one for forty years! It's not that story about two guys visiting a New York restaurant, Sbirro's, I think. This one takes place in Paris and I think the connoisseur falls in love with every talented cook he meets whether she is fat or ugly or whatever but I think the last one does him in, something like that. Please email me if you can identify this one. Thanks!@ erminiver@yahoo.com The first one is Stanley Ellin's Specialty of the House and for some weird reason I think the other might be by someone with literary credentials like G. K. Chesterton or Greene or Somerset Maugham. Extremely annoying becasue I've read it too and I think it was in a green penguin paperback edition. I just checked the "isfdb" and "Specialty of the House" never seems to have appeared in one of the AH Books. It was filmed twice though for the AH-presents TV show. I remember it from the 2nd Pan book of Horror Stories. linktake care. Doug |
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Post by readerpro on Feb 17, 2013 1:03:36 GMT
Thanks, Doug. You are the first person I've found who also remembers it! I have to find it. BTW what is a green Penguin book? Thanks
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 17, 2013 9:02:03 GMT
I think the other might be by someone with literary credentials like G. K. Chesterton Well, it could be a very distorted memory of Chesterton's "The Blue Cross." |
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Post by Dr Strange on Feb 17, 2013 11:38:34 GMT
what is a green Penguin book? Thanks Penguin paperback crime fiction was (is?) published with a green cover design. That story set in Paris - can you remember if it had a modern setting, or was it set in the past? If it's an old story, could it be something by Guy de Maupassant? |
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