OP: Brillat-Savarin: The Judge and His Stomach

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Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, 1992. Hardcover. Near Fine. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826)—lawyer, violinist, survivor of the Reign of Terror—is best remembered as the popularizer of gastronomy, the art of eating. Though a published writer on many subjects, Brillat-Savarin had only one book on food, and it appeared just two months before he died. Physiologie du Goût (1825), or The Physiology of Taste , is frequently cited among professional cooks, food writers, and foodies, alike. Brillat-Savarin’s quippy aphorisms and thoughtful musings, thanks in part to his 20th century philosophical counterpart MFK Fisher’s translation, still resonate 200 years later. It is a wonder, then, that a full-length biography wasn’t written until the 1990s. Historian Giles MacDonogh, in Brillat-Savarin: The Judge and His Stomac h (1992), thoughtfully contextualizes the writer within a volatile France where the abundance of both fear and hope, perhaps, inspired great appreciation for life’s pleasures. Our copy is a Near Fine hardcover.

• Binding: Hardcover

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