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Physiologie du Gout... by JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN

Creator: JEAN ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

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BRILLAT-SAVARIN, JEAN ANTHELME
Physiologie du Gout...
Notice biographique par Alph. Karr.
Stock Code 97126
Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, 1848
£525
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755-1826) was a French lawyer, politician and epicure who, with Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, founded the genre of gastronomic writing. This, his most famous work, has never been out of print. In a series of meditations that owe something to Montaigne's Essays, and have the discursive rhythm of an age of leisured reading and a confident pursuit of educated pleasures, Brillat-Savarin discourses on the pleasures of the table, which he considers a science. It is interesting to note that he considered sugar and white flour to be the cause of obesity.

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Documentation:	Signed
Period:	19th Century
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	97126
Incollect Reference #:	604245

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