title: Feeding Frenzy: Across Europe in Search of the Perfect Meal
author:  Stuart Stevens 
description: I've just taken over this book from it's previous editor, and not a moment too soon. I'm getting married this fall and have been able to plan part of my honeymoon based on what the author and his friend did. I can't wait to go to Provence!
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  # Table Of Contents
  
  
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  George Eliot  
  CHAPTER I  
  CHAPTER II  
  CHAPTER III  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Brother Jacob
  
  
  ### George Eliot
  
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  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Among the many fatalities attending the bloom of young desire, that of blindly
  taking to the confectionery line has not, perhaps, been sufficiently
  considered. How is the son of a British yeoman, who has been fed principally
  on salt pork and yeast dumplings, to know that there is satiety for the human
  stomach even in a paradise of glass jars full of sugared almonds and pink
  lozenges, and that the tedium of life can reach a pitch where plum-buns at
  discretion cease to offer the slightest excitement? Or how, at the tender age
  when a confectioner seems to him a very prince whom all the world must envy--
  who breakfasts on macaroons, dines on meringues, sups on twelfth-cake, and
  fills up the intermediate hours with sugar-candy or peppermint--how is he to
  foresee t