File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 539


Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:55:24 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: En termes de potache


>Reg Lilly wrote:
>
>> Can
>> people recommend literature, films, etc., that would well belong in a
>> Library of
>> Gustatory Studies.
>
>One could advise Rabelais and Brillat-Savarin and his _Physiologie du
>go=FBt_. There's also a piece by Proust on a Serb princess that eats her
>salad like a La Rochefoucauld in _A l'ombre des jeunes filles en
>fleurs_... And (of course?) Kant's _Anthropology_.Wow, what a "potache"
>I make !


>pM

There's Lamb's essay on roast pork? Hemingway on trout.
And a small volume called _The Cook's Quotation Book: A Literary Feast_




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