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M. F. K. Fisher's translation of The Physiology of Taste : or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy / by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.
LIBRA - Blank Collection TX637 .B86 1978
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brillat-Savarin, 1755-1826.
- Series:
- Harvest/HBJ book
- Standardized Title:
- Physiologie du goût. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Gastronomy.
- gastronomy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- [4], xvi, 443, [5] pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Physiology of Taste
- Brillet-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1978.
- Contents:
- Aphorisms of the Profess. The Translator's Glosses
- Dialogue Between the Author and His Friend. The Translator's Glosses
- A Biography of Dr. Richerand. The Translator's Glosses
- The Author's Preface. The Translator's Glosses
- Mediation 1: On the Senses
- Mediation 2: On Taste
- Meditation 3: On Gastronomy
- Meditation 4: On Appetite
- Meditation 5: On Food in General
- Meditation 6: On Food in General
- Meditation 7: Theory of Frying
- Meditation 8: On Thirst
- Meditation 9: On Drinks
- Meditation 10: The End of the World
- Meditation 11: On Gourmandism
- Meditation 12: On Gourmands
- Meditation 13: On Gastronomical Tests
- Meditation 14: On the Pleasures of the Table
- Meditation 15: On Hunting-Luncheons
- Meditation 16:On Digestion
- Meditation 17: On Rest
- Meditation 18: On Sleep
- Meditation 19: On Dreams
- Meditation 20: On the Influence of Diet
- Meditation 21: on Obesity
- Meditation 22: On the Treatment of Obesity
- Meditation 23: On Thinness
- Meditation 24: On Fasting
- Meditation 25: On Exhaustion
- Meditation 26: On Death
- Meditation 27: On Cooking
- Meditation 28: On Restaurateurs
- Meditation 29: Classical Gourmandism in Action
- Meditation 30: Bouquet
- Varieties
- Parting Salute to the Gastronomers of the Old and New worlds
- A Postscript from the Translator.
- Notes:
- Translation of Physiologie du goût.
- Reprint of the 1971 edition published by Knopf, New York.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0156717700
- 9780156717700
- OCLC:
- 3843188
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