Jay Rayner Orden de los libros (cronológico)

So, he had a simple plan: he would embark on a journey through his life in food in pursuit of the meal to end all meals.

You want him to suffer abysmal meals - preferably at eye-watering prices - so that you can gorge on the details and luxuriate in vicarious displeasure. Well, feast your eyes. He hopes you enjoy reading his accounts of these twenty miserable meals a damn sight more than he didn't enjoy experiencing them.

Als een Engelse restaurantcriticus na een meedogenloze bespreking gedwongen is zijn excuus aan te bieden, gaat hem dit zo goed af dat hij er zijn beroep van maakt.

In 1483 Princess Joanna dei Strossetti dies in the agony of childbirth. Five hundred years later her tomb is restored and two men fight for the love of a woman who has been dead half a millenium.