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Join in a celebration of Gusto!....food, drink, bons mots
The French invented the restaurant in the late eighteenth century. Not long after, they invented gastronomy, the modern art of eating well: English society discovered the French chef and the English-speaking world has never been the same.
"Gusto" is a delicious anthology bringing together the major English and French nineteenth-century writings on the arts and pleasures of the table.
"Taste" revisits Romanticism as a period that naturally saw the rise of the restaurant and the pleasures of the table as a cultural field for the practice of aesthetics.