Taste
Subtitle: A Literary History
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780300106527
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Gastronomy in literature; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Taste in literature; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Food habits in literature; English literature; History and criticism
First sentence: Romantic gastronomers, self-proclaimed professors of taste, considered the profoundly physical pleasures of the palate to be the pinnacle of aesthetic appreciation.