White Truffles in Winter

Wonderful descriptions of food and interesting facts but I found it quite confusing at times; the narrator seems to meander through the character's lives more focussed on the food than the plot. I got the sense that although the book was well researched, there didn't seem to be a theme to ‘hang' it on. I thought it was going to be Escoffier's relationships with women, but somehow neither romance seemed to go anywhere.