Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface Harold Bloom Introduction: Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy Denise Gigante 1. Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de la Reynier 2. William Kitchener 4. Launcelot Sturgeon 4. Charles Lamb 5. Jean-Anthelme Birllat-Savarin 6. Dick Humelbergius Secundus 7. Thomas Walker 8. William Makepeace Thackeray 9. The Alderman 10. Dining, Considered as a Fine Art 11. The Epicure's Year Book and Table Companion 12. Alexandre Dumas Appendices A: Joseph Berchoux B: Subjects of the Frontispieces
