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Description edit
"The Hundred-Foot Journey" is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame Mallory, in the remote French village... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Madame Mallory: Famed French chef who hates most every thing. She mentors a young Indian boy who later becomes a famous chef in his own right.
- Paul Verdun: Add a description of this character.
- Hassan
- Marguerite
- Papa
- Monsieur Leblanc
- Ammi
- Mehtab
- Margaret
- Jean-pierre
- Jacques
- Madame Picard
- Mummy
- Mayur
- Claude
- Umar
- Monsieur Haji
- Joshi
- Gertrude
- Serge
- Jean-luc
- Bappu
- Marcel
- Mukhtar
- Bapaji
- Abhidha
- Marcus
- Uday Joshi
- Hewitt
- Henri
- Monsieur Iten
- Abbas
- Monsieur Barthot
- Anwar
- Suzanne
- Rue Valette
- Anna Verdun
- Chef Mafitte
- Zainab
- Gault Millau
- Maxine
- Chef Mallory
- Southall
- Sami
- Madame Degeneret
- Arash
- Chardin
First Sentence edit
I, Hassan Haji, was born, the second of six children, above my grandfather's restaurant on the Napean Sea Road in what was then called West Bombay, two decades before the great city was renamed Mumbai.
Table of Contents edit
Part One: Mumbai
Part Two: London
Part Three: Lumière
Part Four: Paris
Chapters are numbered 1 through 20 within the sections.
Glossary edit
- Cognoscenti: persons who have superior knowledge and understanding of a particular field
- Gourmand: a gourmet, epicure
- Palaver: a conference or discussionprofuse and idle talk; chatterpersuasive talk; flattery
Authors & Contributors edit
- Richard C. Morais (Author)
Awards edit
- Sakura Medal (Finalist, 2012)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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