A handbook of gastronomy : new and complete translation / with fifty-two original etchings by A. Lalauze.

  • Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826.
Date:
1884
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Credit: A handbook of gastronomy : new and complete translation / with fifty-two original etchings by A. Lalauze. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    themselves, so that the time, if not the will, must fail them to devote themselves to the various cares which precede, accompany, and follow the issue of a work, however little the size may be. Author. But the title, the subject, the good-natured friends ? Friend. The very word “gastronomy” makes every one prick up his ears. The subject is fashionable, and good-natured friends are as much gourmands as any one else. This should quiet you. Besides, do you not know that the gravest people have sometimes written light works : the President Montesquieu, for example ? * Author. Yes, that is quite true. He has written the Temple of Gnidus, and it may be maintained that there is more real usefulness in thinking of what is at the same time a necessity, a pleasure, and an everyday occupa- tion, than in saying that there were, more than two thousand years ago, a couple of dirty brats, one of * M. de Montucla, known by a very good History of mathematics, wrote a Dictionary of gastronomic geography ; he showed me some parts of it whilst I was at Versailles. It is said that M. Berriat-Saint-Prix, who was a good consulting lawyer, has written a novel in many volumes.