| Gusto: Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy Contributor(s): Gigante, Denise (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415970938 ISBN-13: 9780415970938 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: The French invented the restaurant in the late eighteenth century. Not long after, they invented gastronomy, the modern art of eating well: English society discovered the French chef and the English-speaking world has never been the same. This delicious anthology brings together the major English and French nineteenth-century writings on the arts and pleasures of the table. Included are essays by Grimod de la Reynie re, Brillat-Savarin, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Lamb, William Thackeray and lesser-known works by pseudonymous authors such as Launcelot Sturgeon and Dick Humelbergius Secundus. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | History - Cooking | Essays & Narratives |
| Dewey: 641.013 |
| LCCN: 2005006001 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.04" W x 9.04" (1.01 lbs) 342 pages |
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| Publisher Description: First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |