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Les Liaisons Culinaires
  • Published: 8 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446475232
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 106

Les Liaisons Culinaires

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'Passionate and sensual about food... it deserves its place in the gourmet's library by virtue of the recipes alone' - Independent on Sunday

Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover - Nana. What follows is the story of their competition to win Nana's heart through her appetite. As the plates pile up, and the recipes grow ever more mouth watering, a bizarre and comic duel develops, fought with sea-urchin salads, stuffed vine leaves and delicacies from all corners of the Aegean to win the consummate femme fatale or to end up with the sting in the tail...
  • Published: 8 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446475232
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 106
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About the author

Andreas Staïkos

Andreas Staikos, an Athenian, was born in 1944. He has written and directed several works for theatre and has also translated into Greek works by Marivaux, Molière and other French classics from the eighteenth centuries.
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Praise for Les Liaisons Culinaires

A curvaceous little tale of a pair of suitors, Dimitris and Damocles, who vie for the favours of their mutual mistress through the medium of the mezze... Call it culinary onanism for Greek gastronomes. And, incidentally, the recipes are terrific

Elizabeth Luard, Good Book Guide

Delightfully written

Canberra Times

If you are even just a tiny bit of a gourmand, and have a mischievous streak, surrender yourself to Andreas Staikos' amusing novel... the language is beautiful and lively, the love affair passionate and the recipes appetising

L'Humanité

This is the most delicious book that you will ever read

The Times