Brillat-Savarin's Physiologie du Goût |
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Author:
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ISBN: | 978-0-217-44906-9 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $21.14 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APHORISMS OF THE PROFESSOR TO SERVE AS PROLEGOMENA TO HIS WORK, AND AS AN ETERNAL BASIS TO SCIENCE. THE world would have been merely nothing except for life. All that lives, feeds. Animals feed, man eats; wise men alone know how to eat. The destiny of nations depends on the manner wherein they take their...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APHORISMS OF THE PROFESSOR TO SERVE AS PROLEGOMENA TO HIS WORK, AND AS AN ETERNAL BASIS TO SCIENCE. THE world would have been merely nothing except for life. All that lives, feeds. Animals feed, man eats; wise men alone know how to eat. The destiny of nations depends on the manner wherein they take their food. Tell me what thou eatest, and I will tell thee. what thou art. The Creator, though condemning man to eat to live, invites him to do so by appetite, and rewards him by enjoyment. Good living is an act of our judgment by which we grant a preference to those things which are agreeable to the taste above those that have not that quality. The joys of the table belong equally to all ages, conditions, countries, and times; they mix with all other pleasures, and remain the last to console us for their loss. VIII. The table is the sole locality where no one during the first hour feels himself tired. The discovery of a new dish is more beneficial to humanity than the discovery of a new star. The dyspeptic man and the drunkard are incapable of either eating or drinking. The order of food is from the most solid to the most light. The order of drink is from the mildest to the most heady and the most scented. XIII. To say that we should not mix our liquors is a heresy. The tongue becomes saturated, and after the third glass, the finest wine only gives an obtuse sensation. Dessert without cheese, is like a pretty girl with only one eye. A cook may be educated, but a roast cook must be born such. The most indispensable quality in the cook is punctuality, and such ought to be the duty of the guests. XVII. To wait too long for a late guest denotes a lack of consideration to all those who are present. XVIII. H...