Gastronomy as a fine art, or, The science of good living : A translation of the "Physiologie du goût" of Brillat-Savarin / by R.E. Anderson, M.A.

  • Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Gastronomy as a fine art, or, The science of good living : A translation of the "Physiologie du goût" of Brillat-Savarin / by R.E. Anderson, M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. For the publication of the work now entrusted to the reader’s good will, there was needed on my part no great labour. All I have done was to arrange a collection of materials made long ago. It was a pastime which I had been keeping in store for my old age. Whilst considering the pleasures of the table from every point of view, I soon saw that there was something better to be made of the subject than a mere cookery-book, and that there was much to be said upon functions which are not only vital and ' constant, but exercise a very direct influence upon our health, our happiness, and even our success in life. As soon as this leading idea was clearly fixed in my mind, all the rest flowed easily from it. I looked about me—I took notes ; and often in the midst of