White Truffles in Winter

A man of contradictions - kind yet imperious, food-obsessed yet rarely hungry - Scoffer was also torn between two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah Bernhardt and his wife, the independent and sublime poet Dolphin Daffiest, who refused ever to leave Monte Carlo. In the last year of Scoffer's life, in the middle of writing his memoirs, he has returned to Dolphin, who requests a dish in her name as he has honored Bernhardt, Queen Victoria, and many others. How does one define the complexity of love on a single plate?