Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. It's opening night at the local restaurant and ever resourceful Frannie, always on the lookout for employment opportunities, decides to step in to help speed up the slow service--that is until she learns that the patrons are eating escargot; can Frannie warn the customers away from the disgusting mollusks without ruining the restaurant's reputation...read more

White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the Ritz. A man of contradictions - kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry - Escoffier was also torn between two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and his wife, the independent and sublime poet Delphine Daffis, who refused ever to leave Monte Carlo. In the last year of Escoffier's life, in the middle of writing his memoirs, he has returned to Delphine, who requests a dish in her name as he has honored Bernhardt, Queen Victoria, and many others..