The Green and the Red

Armand Chauvel

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She's a vegetarian. He's a carnivore. Will it be a table for one?

Meet Léa. She's the idealistic owner and chef of La Dame Verte, a vegetarian restaurant struggling in a small French town in Brittany. Meet Mathieu. He's the carnivorous marketing director of the town's biggest pork producer, which is trying to put Léa out of business to take over the restaurant's prime real estate. When Léa and Mathieu first cross paths, it is under false pretenses-Mathieu is posing as a vegetarian, infiltrating the local animal rights community for information that will force Léa's restaurant toward a swifter demise. And while Léa suspects that Mathieu isn't all that he appears to be, she has no idea how deep his culinary deception goes.

Neither of them can deny the attraction they feel for each other, and it seems as though they might be setting a table for two ... until Léa learns the truth. Translated from the French, The Green and the Red is at once a romantic comedy and a comedy of errors-two people from different worlds coming together in a small French town immersed in the culture of food.

Book Details

Publisher: Ashland Creek Press
Publish Date: May 1st, 2014
Pages: 186
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.25in - 0.43in - 0.48lb
EAN: 9781618220301
Categories: • Romance - Contemporary• Humorous - General• Literary

About the Author

Chauvel, Armand: - Armand Chauvel is a French journalist and correspondent for Spain and Portugal. Born in France to an extended family of Burgundian winemakers, he spent a large part of his childhood in Senegal and Brazil due to his father's work as a tropical agronomist. Armand studied journalism in Paris before taking work in Portugal and later in Spain. Although his journalistic focus is the economy and the business world, Armand is also passionate about the arts. He studied painting in Lisbon as well as playwriting and scriptwriting in Paris before tackling the novel genre. He became a vegetarian in 2006 after viewing the documentary Earthlings, and since then has taken a growing interest in the vegan diet and philosophy. In September 2012, Armand founded the French-language blog Vegeshopper, which explores consumerism from a vegetarian/vegan perspective and features interviews on the subject with notable individuals. Armand currently resides in Barcelona with his wife and their young son. The Green and the Red is his first published novel.

Lyman, Elisabeth: - Elisabeth Lyman is from the American Midwest, where she studied French, Arabic, Spanish, and linguistics before moving to San Francisco to complete a graduate degree in teaching English as a second language. She then taught for several years before pursuing further studies in French-to-English translation and establishing herself as a freelance translator. In 2009, Elisabeth moved to Paris and there found many new opportunities to contribute to creative and literary projects through her translation work. Already a vegetarian for several years, she was inspired by the small but vibrant vegan community in France to learn more about this way of eating and living-an exploration that led to embracing veganism and developing a passion for the culinary arts. Elisabeth now divides her time between translating, cooking, and discovering the secrets of the City of Light.

Praise for this book

"Armand Chauvel's first novel is an entertaining tale of two people with strong career goals and stronger opinions on what to eat...the satire makes for a light and funny read, no matter where one falls on the dietary spectrum between herbivore and carnivore...Beneath the satire, though, are real questions about food consumption." -- Jenna Gersie, The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada

"The passion for meat and the habit of eating it will become, in the West, one of the ways in which our morality will be tested. Those who keep doing it will no longer be able to rely on tradition and custom-they will have to devise a good justification for what other fellow citizens regard with horror. This is a novel about the political morality of meat eating-and it is very well done." -- Bruno Latour, philosopher, sociologist, anthropologist, and 2013 Holberg Prize Winner

"Chauvel explores the realms of human attraction despite obvious differences, as well as the lengths some will go to in order to preserve one's own rationales. Touching on a wide array of human emotion and behavior, including deceit, manipulation, guilt, and regret, Chauvel does a remarkable job of demonstrating the complexities of the human psyche, as well as the consequences-both personal and global-of such." -- Karuna for Animals