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Gusto - Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy (Hardcover)
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Gusto - Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy (Hardcover)
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This delicious anthology of primary texts brings together the major
English and French nineteenth-century writings on the arts and
pleasures of the table. With the invention of the restaurant and a
public scene of dining after the French Revolution, gastronomy
emerged as a distinct genre of writing, treating food with
philosophical significance. Romantic Gourmand recognizes that more
goes into the making of a good meal than food itself, and they
transformed dining into a fine art and a medium for
self-expression. This excellent book examines the theories of
ettiquette and food connoisseruship and how it became the
foundation for our modern food culture with gourmet magazines,
reviews and televized cuisine. Presenting texts, some of which
appear in English for the fitst time, Diane Gigante's looks at the
French genius behind modern gastronomy, essays include: Grimod de
la Reyniere; Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's Physiology of Tast;
Alexandre Dumas' Dictionary of Cuisine; Charles Lamb's Dissertation
on Roast Pig; William Thackeray's Dinner-Giving Snobs; lesser-known
works by pseudonymous authors such as Launcelot Sturgeon and Dick
Humelbergius Secundus. with an intereste in, the history of food.
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