The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-savarin & M. F. K. Fisher

Author:Jean Anthelme Brillat-savarin & M. F. K. Fisher [Brillat-savarin, Jean Anthelme & Fisher, M. F. K.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Gastronomy, Essays, Cooking, General, food
ISBN: 9780307269720
Google: GYnZqBjBDHoC
Amazon: 0307269728
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 1970-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

THE TRANSLATOR’S GLOSSES

1. The Professor is said, by at least one of the men who wrote introductions to him (Charles Monselet), to have had a little dog as his constant companion in Paris. But this somewhat sentimental picture of the hunter and his friend is the only mention Brillat-Savarin makes of the possible good feeling between two-and four-legged creatures, except for the amiable way he starts his story of traveler’s luck: “One time, mounted on my good mare la Joie…”

2. It was in the Pactolus River, in Lydia, that the accursed king Midas bathed to wash away his golden touch, and from the moment of his purification, Greek myths said, the sands of the river changed to solid gold.

3. Girodet-Trioson (1767–1824) was a noted pupil of David who won the Prix de Rome and spent the rest of his life painting large sentimental pictures of classical subjects. The one the Professor refers to is probably THE SLEEP OF ENDYMION, in the Louvre: a far from subtle reminder that inexorable Diana let herself have at least one lover.

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