Title : Physiology of Taste - Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin - book

Summary :

The Physiology of Taste is a collection of memoirs. Memoirs of humor, in a heroic-comic tone, or how to treat familiar subjects with a touch of nobility, a zest of pomp or solemnity. This could be tiresome, if everything were not bathed in modesty and gaiety. Brillat-Savarin is the most amiable author there is. But it is about cooking. Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) inaugurates with genius this intellectualization of gastronomy which has not ceased until our days. He is a witness to the era when the restaurant, a place to eat, is imposed to the detriment of the inn, a refuge for the traveler without fire or place, where one did little but drink and eat. Cooking becomes professionalized and every profession gives rise to discourse; sitting down to eat is a matter of language. Beyond the need to eat, the pleasure of the table is like a staging: the luxury of desire. The desired food is a kind of ethnographic ceremony by which man celebrates his power, his freedom to burn his energy "for nothing." "In this sense," says Roland Barthes, "Brillat-Savarin's book is from start to finish the book of the "properly human," because it is desire (in that which it speaks to itself) that distinguishes man."

• EAN : 9782080811097
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