Why a Booktrail?
21C: Immediately after reading this book you’ll rush out to your local Indian takeaway. That’s how visual this book is.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
What you need to know before your trail
Born above his grandfather’s small restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan is a young boy whose first impressions of life are of the culinary kind. The smells of the food, the clunking of cutlery and the hustle and bustle of the local spice markets.
But such an existence is cut short when tragedy strikes and the family leave India and settle in Lumière, a small village in the French Alps, but not before they have quite literally eaten their way around the world. Aah such a culinary dream!
This quirky Indian family take the local village of Lumière by storm. At first no one can really understand them and when they open a friendly Indian restaurant everyone is shocked – what on earth are these people thinking of setting up such a place and opposite an esteemed French restaurant too!
Will the family infuse the villagers with promising fragrance of spices or annoy them with the new and foreign flavours? The owner of the French restaurant – Madame Mallory soon takes Hassan under her wing in order to win the culinary war between them. But the journey he takes from this point takes him to Paris and a whole new culinary world beyond….
Travel Guide
Around the world in 80 spices…..
Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan first experienced life through intoxicating whiffs of spicy fish curry, trips to the local markets, and gourmet outings with his mother.
Lumière, a small village in the French Alps where young Hassan is mentored by Madame Mallory. The story mixes the indian and French cultures and culinary treats together in a way that we have never seen before and the final taste is quite something else! It’s a kind of mix between Slumdog millionaire and Ratatouille in many ways.
The real location here is the kitchen and what dreams you can make for yourself if you work hard and try new recipes and then bring food to the locals to get to know them and blend in. Hassan is the start of the show –
“That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once a generation. He is one of those rare chefs who is simply born. He is an artist.”
Where Next?
