Gusto: Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy

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 Reynière, Brillat-Savarin, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Lamb, William Thackeray and lesser-known works by pseudonymous authors such as Launcelot Sturgeon and Dick Humelbergius Secundus.

Author: Denise Gigante
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/26/2005
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.04w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780415970938

About the Author

Denise Gigante is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Stanford. She is the author of Taste: ALiterary History.