UC Santa Barbara

Cooking and Georges Perec Beyond the importance of food and eating in Perec's works, appears an analogy, between the art of cooking and that of writing, which owes much to Proust — not so much to the edibility of Proust's work, which has to do with the melding together af many ingredients whereas Perec's work is about lists and separate elements, as to the figure of the artist as ascetic, even anorexic, cook.