Physiology Of Taste (Paperback) by Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are, says Brillat-Savarin, the eighteenth-century French author of this masterpiece on the subject of cooking as an art and eating as a pleasure. Humorous, satirical, personal, and witty, Brillat-Savarin's extended paean to the joys of food and drink has earned a permanent place in the world's literature. Its author was a politician and a man of letters during the revolutionary eras in America and France; politics, however, could not excite his passion to the same degree as gastronomy. He offers meditations on the senses, the science of gastronomy, the erotic virtues of wild truffles, hunting turkeys in America, Parisian restaurants, the history of cooking, diets, and a hundred other engaging topics.