[Sca-cooks] Physiology of Taste translations

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius1 at verizon.net
Thu Mar 5 07:54:53 PST 2009


On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Susan Fox wrote:

> This book was written in 1825 so it would not occur to me to include  
> it in a book list intended for the SCA with a focus on works dated  
> before 1650.
>
> That being said:  my copy is the M.F.K. Fisher translation.  Her  
> hand with the French language is unlike any other, and I mean that  
> in a good way.

Ah, yes, M.F.K. Fisher, the Marcel Proust of the kitchen... ;-)

I've got an edition of Brillat-Savarin's "Physiologie du gout"  
translated by Anne Drayton, entitled "The Philosopher In The Kitchen"...

Adamantius






"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,  
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
			-- Rabbi Israel Salanter




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