Gastronomy

Gastronomy is the study of food and culture, with a particular focus on gourmet cuisine.

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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Taste: My Life Through Food
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Honoré de Balzac
No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.
Honoré de Balzac, The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

M.F.K. Fisher
Why, Hang Town Fry...I remember once..." Then, for a few minutes or seconds before the part he has been playing so long submerges his real thinking self, and smudges all the outlines into those of a campus character, you see what this big deaf lost man must have been, one night down near the Ferry Building when he ate Hang...Town...Fry... ...more
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