The Hundred Foot Journey – Richard C Morais

Richard Morais is an award-winning American author, who was both the editor of Barron’s Penta, an acclaimed glossy magazine for wealthy families; and Forbes’s European Bureau Chief, the magazine’s longest-serving foreign correspondent, stationed in London for 18 years.

His unique brief at Forbes allowed him to travel anywhere in the world and to write on any subject that interested him.

His unusual business stories – from a controversial interview with Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street, to his profile of the low-key Indian billionaire Adi Godrej – ha have led to multiple journalism awards.

Mr. Morais has uniquely won three awards and six nominations at the Business Journalist of The Year Awards, the only competition in the world where the best U.S. and British business journalists competed directly in a single event.

His literary works, meanwhile, were semi-finalists in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition and short-listed for Britain’s Ian St. James Award.

Mr. Morais was named the 2015 Citizen Diplomat of the Year – the highest honour granted by Global Ties U.S.; a private-public partnership sponsored by the U.S. State Department – “for promoting cross-cultural understanding in all of his literary work.”

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Richard Morais writes a book about a boy form Mumbai (Hassan Haji) who grows up to reach the heights in the world of French Cuisine.

From his grandfather’s fleet of snack bikes to the innovations that inspired his father to open the popular restaurant Bollywood Nights, this book sets out the show the path Hassan takes to reach his goals in the French Culinary world.

Meeting Madame Mallory, who turns into his lady bountiful, Hassan goes against his father’s wishes to become Madame Mallory’s apprentice, using this as a platform to rise to a prize-winning chef in Paris.

This book will make your mouth water with the detailed descriptions of food in its pages. From fish curries to citrus pastries, it will leave you wanting more.

Now made into a film starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri, you can read the book and watch the film, but which first?

I give this book a 3-egg rating, why? Because of the food descriptions and it left me licking my lips.