File Format | PDF
File Size | 3.53 MB
Pages | 870
Language | English
Category | Physiology
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Description: A delightful and
hilarious classic about the joys of the table, The Physiology of Taste is the
most famous book about food ever written. First published in France in 1825 and
continuously in print ever since, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s masterpiece
is a historical, philosophical, and epicurean collection of recipes,
reflections, and anecdotes on everything and anything gastronomical.
Brillat-Savarin—who famously stated “Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you
what you are”—shrewdly expounds upon culinary matters that still resonate today,
from the rise of the destination restaurant to matters of diet and weight, and
in M. F. K. Fisher, whose commentary is both brilliant and amusing, he has an
editor with a sensitivity and wit to match his own.
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The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy