Brillat-Savarin: The Judge and His Stomach

by Giles MacDonogh

Overview

The first full and authoritative biography of the father of gastronomy. MacDonogh not only chronicles Brillat's many pursuits, he also presents a fascinating picture of provincial France under the ancien regime and the dangerous years that followed its fall. The world of revolutionaries and gourmets explored with elegance and scholarship.-Observer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566637176
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/20/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Giles MacDonogh was educated at Oxford and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Practiques in Paris. He is recognized for his writings on wine and food, and for his book A Palate in Revolution. He lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

An engaging and well-researched biography...Brillat-Savarin emerges as an enormously likeable man.

Independent - Christina Hardyment

MacDonogh explores with elegance and scholarship the world of revolutionaries and gourmets.

Observer - Robin Smyth

Highly readable...a convincing portrait of this marvelous hedonist.

Country Life - Bruce Palling

"An excellent, absorbing, and very amusing book."

Literary Review - Jennifer Patterson

An excellent, absorbing, and very amusing book.
— Jennifer Patterson

Literary Review

Highly readable...a convincing portrait of this marvelous hedonist.
— Bruce Palling

Country Life

MacDonogh explores with elegance and scholarship the world of revolutionaries and gourmets.
— Robin Smyth

Observer

An engaging and well-researched biography...Brillat-Savarin emerges as an enormously likeable man.
— Christina Hardyment

Independent

An excellent, absorbing, and very amusing book.
— Literary Review

Jennifer Patterson

Highly readable...a convincing portrait of this marvelous hedonist.
— Country Life

Bruce Palling

MacDonogh explores with elegance and scholarship the world of revolutionaries and gourmets. Observer

Smythe

An engaging and well-researched biography...Brillat-Savarin emerges as an enormously likeable man.
— Independent.

Christina Hardyment