Cooking in the Wrong Century [electronic resource]

Teresa Präauer2025

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'Very funny, very stylish and very moving' ADAM THIRLWELL 'An irresistible novel - I loved it' CLAIRE POWELL 'Deliciously unsettling and thoroughly enjoyable' AYŞEGÜL SAVAS An evening of perfect preparation. A night of uninvited chaos. For the hostess, food has always been about growing up. From the pancakes your grandmother made you, dolloped with jam, to the salty glug of your first oyster. Now, poised at the brink of midlife, the hostess prepares for a dinner party in her new apartment. With a hunger for the finer things in life, she folds linen napkins into neat triangles, arranges wildflowers for the table and puts on a jazz playlist the projects effortless cool. But her composure begins to falter when her guests arrive drunk and late, downing bottles of her perfectly cooled wine and trailing water over the floor. Here comes the chain-smoking professor who never says the right thing, the husband glued to his smartphone, the wife who makes a secret pass at your boyfrien...