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The Feasting Season ReviewNancy Coons has a real talent for writing so vivid you can practically smell the scents she describes and taste the flavors about which she writes. Even after only five minutes with the book I wanted to go out and have a good meal. It's very obvious that Coons is a food writer and that she knows her subject intimately. It's refreshing to read something in which food is presented as something to be enjoyed, a pleasure to be relished, and cooking is made art by her writing. The book is certainly worth a read for that alone.
On the downside, I never really could understand what drove Meg to marry Nigel in the first place. He's borderline mentally abusive, patronizing her and treating her like she's a child, refusing to take her work seriously, and disregarding her every protest against his monstrous plans to demolish part of their historic farmhouse in favor of creating a hideous glasshouse. That alone made me despise the character. In all seriousness, though, Meg's marriage is not a good one and her reasons for having entered into it are very unclear to me. I found myself frustrated with her every time her husband marginalized her and, far worse yet, their children. He's not only a poor husband, he's a poor father who stays out till all hours and takes advantage of his wife's research travels to party like a single guy while his kids are at home with their far too patient nanny.
The relationship between Meg and Jean-Jacques is sensually written but I found him rather frustrating as well. He expects Meg to tell him everything and yet he does his best to keep his past from her. I'm not sure I felt that he was really a better match for her than Nigel as he is also given to patronizing her and refusing to take her seriously. Even after their relationship deepens, he still seems to take delight in mocking Meg's eagerness to pursue the historical angle of the book they're writing. He ignores her input and pretty much does what he wants with it. Still, he is kinder to her than her husband and he does seem to have more of an appreciation for her.
Overall, the writing is lush and this book is a very good read. It would have been truly extraordinary if Meg would have come into her own more. I thought she spent too much time being everything for everyone else and not enough time just being herself. I wanted her to grow a backbone, to really go after the things she wanted, to make the men in her life take her seriously or disregard them altogether.
In spite of my disappointment with the characters, the descriptions of Meg's and Jean-Jacques's travels, of the places they visited and the foods they ate, was nothing short of spectacular. More than anything, this book is something of a love letter to France itself, to its history and culture and, especially, its food and wine. Considering the beating France has taken in the U.S. in recent times, it was lovely to read a positive novel about France, one in which the people are human and not so very different from the people in the U.S.The Feasting Season Overview

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