Title: The Coach Inn - Jean-Paul Malaval - book
Summary :
In Corrèze, the life and rebirth of an inn masterfully run by Maxence... until a woman gets involved! A joy of words and food by a tasteful author.
In 1900, in Meyssenac, in Corrèze, there was a famous hostelry, the Auberge des Diligences...
Maxence and Ameline welcome their many guests with a generous table that honors local tastes. Maxence's uncompromising and touchy nature, who reigns alone in his kitchen, creates a lot of tension in the couple. Little Savin and Faustine suffer from it. One day, Ameline cooks up a dish so delicious that the whole village rushes to taste it. Much to Maxence's dismay. A page turns: he sees his supremacy waver, his children run away into the woods, and, in the village, progress arrives with the installation of the tramway, a project started by a handsome engineer living at the inn and in love with Ameline...
A delightful novel that delights us with witty remarks, characters and gastronomic descriptions, and which also offers a parallel story about childhood, in the colors of nature and freedom, in the still carefree France before 1914.
