A culinary war ensues, pitting Hassan’s Mumbai-toughened father against the imperious Michelin-starred cordon bleu, until Madame Mallory realizes that Hassan is a cook with natural talents far superior to her own.
Synopsis from Goodreads: The Hundred-Foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame Mallory, in the remote French village of Lumière. But one day, they upped and left India and travelled to France where they opened their own eatery called Maison Mumbai, which happened to be a hundred feet away and directly across the road from Le Saule Pleureur, Madame Mallory’s Michelin-starred eatery. Hassan came from a family of chefs with his parents and grandparents being involved in the food business when he was young. The movie of the same name was directed by Lasse Hallstrom and produced by none other than Oprah Winfrey, the great and famous talk show host and celebrity, with Dame Helen Mirren as Madame Gertrude Mallory, Om Puri as Abbas Haji (Kadam), Manish Dayal as Hassan, and Charlotte Le Bon as Marguerite. Thankfully, they still left India to move to France. In the book, they were known as the Haji family but in the movie, they were given the name Kadam. True enough, the movie had changed many parts of the book, including the surname of Hassan’s family. Since many readers like myself, if you are a true reader, you can tell when the movie is being honest with you or not. I wanted to read the book and compare it with the movie. So when I saw the book being sold at the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale at the end of last year, I simply knew I had to buy it.
At least, the story that was told in and by the movie. Setting: Mumbai (India), London, Lumiere and Paris (France)īecause I’ve seen the movie, I knew what the story was about. Date published: 2014 by Alma Books (first published 2008)
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