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. With Curnonsky (Maurice Edmond Sailland) he wrote the multi-volume work ''La France gastronomique, guide des merveilles culinaires et des bonnes auberges françaises'' (Gastronomic France: Guide to the culinary marvels and the good inns of France)''.'' He may be best known today for his novel about the fictional gourmet Dodin-Bouffant, ''La vie et la passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet'' (The Life and Passion of Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet also translated as ''The Passionate Epicure''), which was first published in 1924 and dedicated to his friend Curnonsky and the great nineteenth-century French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. 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''.

Rouff had socialist leanings, which were apparent in his writings on social history. He was influenced by Jean Jaurès, and he contributed to Jaures's ''Histoire socialiste,'' which his father, Jules, published. Provided by Wikipedia