Marcel Rouff

Marcel Rouff (May 4,1877 in Carouge (Geneva) – February 3, 1936 in Paris) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, historian, and gastronomic writer.

Rouff's novel was adapted for French television in 1973 by Jean Ferniot and in a 2023 feature-length movie by Trần Anh Hùng, The Taste of Things.

He attended the Lycée Carnot, on Boulevard Malesherbes in Paris and the Sorbonne, where he earned a Docteur-ès-lettres (effectively a PhD).

[7] The historian Julia Csergo writes that Curnonsky and Rouff "invented the 'gastronomic guide' with the publication of their Tour of Gastronomic France.

Foreigners and the French never forgot it and would make eating well one of the driving forces of tourism in France.Some consider Rouff's gastronomic novel, La vie et la passion de Dodin-Bouffant, gourmet (The Life and the Passion of Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet), written before the First World War and published in 1924, to be his master work.

"[11] More recently literary scholar Lawrence R. Schehr called it "a hybrid work that sits somewhere between fiction and cookbooks, menus, and Food TV.

"[16] Throughout 1924, Curnonsky and Rouff wrote and edited a special one-page section of Comoedia entitled "Le Beau Voyage et la Bonne Auberge," which appeared every Saturday and featured articles on gastronomy, regional cuisines, and tourism.

Marcel Rouff, was a novelist, poet, critic, and historian.
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