![]() Unfortunately – and unexpectedly – in 2005 Merchant died. Morais said that Merchant should look for a project that would marry his love of film making with his love of cooking, in fact he said he would help him look but once he couldn't find a novel that fitted the bill Morais sat down and wrote one himself. ![]() One of Richard Morais’s friends was the late film director Ismail Merchant of Merchant and Ivory fame and apparently whenever the two of them would get together they would end up in the kitchen. ![]() Just hold that thought in mind for the moment while I tell you a bit about The Hundred Foot Journey.įirst of all, how it came to be written. ![]() A "platto di Mussolini" is a plate of mussels, not the dictator on a dish – Richard Morais, The Hundred Foot JourneyĪs I worked my way though Richard Morais’s first novel, intriguingly-called The Hundred Foot Journey, two other books came to my mind and neither have anything much to do with India, France or gourmet food: Graham McCann’s biography of Morecambe and Wise and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and for somewhat similar reasons. ![]()
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