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This article focuses on the book "The Debt to Pleasure," by John Lanchester. Indeed, the book is ostensibly structured as a galloping gourmet's ramble through the seasons as he discourses over-knowledgeably on all things culinary, studding his lectures with opinionated asides, erudite digressions, inflated self-assessments and discursive recipes that will send more than a few readers to the market and the kitchen. Part of the fun of "The Debt to Pleasure," is savoring how Lanchester, himself a restaurant reviewer and a literary editor, performs ventriloquism.

Comments on the book 'The Debt of Pleasure,' by John Lanchester. Characteristic of the book; Pleasure in reading the book; Identification of book flaws.