Brillat-Savarin: The Judge and His Stomach by Giles MacDonogh (.ePUB)
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Brillat-Savarin: The Judge and His Stomach (1992) by Giles MacDonogh
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Overview: No one seriously interested in food need be reminded that Jean-Anthelme Brillat- Savarin is the father of gastronomy, or that his book La Physiologie du gout, published in 1825 and never since out of print, is gastronomy’s first great classic.
This book is likewise a first. It is the only full and scholarly biography of Brillat who, far from being just a gastronome, was also, during perhaps the most interesting period of French history, a lawyer, politician, emigre in flight from the guillotine, teacher of French in New York, first violin, hunter, secretary to the General Staff of the Revolutionary Army, judge, lover and pornographer. Innumerable stories are told of him: how on the run he sang for his life to the wife of a key official; or how as a judge he would keep a woodcock in his pocket, putrefying ideally for the table.
Besides Brillat’s life, Giles MacDonogh presents a fascinating picture of provincial France under the ancien regime and the dangerous years that followed its fall. He describes scenes of avarice, gluttony, malice and intrigue that would have amused Balzac himself. As a result, his remarkable book adds greatly to our knowledge both of the art of cookery in a heroic age of gourmandise and of French life at its gamiest.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Food & Drink
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