Gastronomy

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

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
Salt: A World History
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
The Escoffier Cookbook and Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery: For Connoisseurs, Chefs, Epicures Complete With 2973 Recipes
The Art of Eating
The Man Who Ate Everything
It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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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

Nina Killham
Jasmine licked her finger and flipped through her notes: Smoked Chicken with Pureed Spiced Lentils, Hot Ham and Bacon Biscuits, Cassoulet Salad with Garlic Sausages. After three cookbooks, she was finally finding her voice. She had discovered her future lay in rustic, not structure. Oh, she had tried the nouvelle rage. Who could forget her Breast of Chicken on a Bed of Pureed Grapes, her Diced Brie and Kumquat Salsa, her Orange and Chocolate Salad with Grand Marnier Vinaigrette? But her instinct ...more
Nina Killham, How to Cook a Tart

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