Famous food critic Peirre Arthens is dying. He’s loved and hated by those closest to him and the novel jumps between what they feel in his final days and his thoughts as he faces his own demise. In Gourmet Rhapsody, he is searching his memory for that perfect dish, a flavor that stands apart from everything he’s eaten in the past, he longs for one final taste…
If you love food, you’ll enjoy this book. One of the passages stood out for me, an exquisite description of biting into a ripe tomato from the garden.
“The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one’s mouth that brings with it every pleasure. The resistance of the skin – slightly taut, just enough; the luscious yield of the tissues, their seed-filled liqueur oozing to the corners of one’s lips, and that one wipes away without any fear of staining one’s fingers; this pump little globe unleashing a flood of nature inside us: a tomato, an adventure.”
Want to grow your own luscious tomatoes? June is a good time to start new seedlings. Take a look at the varieties of tomato seeds, opens a new window currently available for check out. If your library doesn’t have a physical seed collection, you can simply Place a Hold just like you would with books and other materials.
New to gardening in the desert? Learn more about how to sow and save tomato seeds, opens a new window.
