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Authors: Anthelme Jean Brillat-Savarin
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HISTORICAL EVENTS: Louis Napoleon’s
Coup d’état
and proclamation of Empire.
To coincide with the Great Exhibition in London’s Hyde Park, Soyer’s opens his “Universal Symposium to all Nations” – a flamboyant fashionable restaurant in Kensington Gore, with capacity to feed 5000 people daily.
Though well patronised it is a financial catastrophe, and closes after only three months.
DATE: 1853
LITERARY CONTEXT: Viart, Fouret, Délan:
Le
Cuisinier national de la ville et de la campagne
.
Sydney Whiting:
Memoirs of a
Stomach: Written by Himself
,
That All Who Eat May Read –
a best-seller in its day.
DATE: 1855
LITERARY CONTEXT: Soyer:
A Shilling Cookery for the People
.
DATE: 1856
LITERARY CONTEXT: Flaubert:
Madame Bovary
.
Dubois/Bernard:
La Cuisine classique
.
DATE: 1859
LITERARY CONTEXT: Monselet:
La Cuisinière poétique
.
DATE: 1860
LITERARY CONTEXT: Baudelaire:
Les Paradis artificiels
.
DATE: 1862
LITERARY CONTEXT: Flaubert:
Salammbô
.
Monselet:
Almanach des gourmands
(6 volumes, to 1870).
DATE: 1863–4
LITERARY CONTEXT: Dumas,
père: Lettres sur la cuisine à un prétendu gourmand napolitain
.
DATE: 1867
LITERARY CONTEXT: Gouffé:
Le Livre de cuisine
.
HISTORICAL EVENTS: On 7 June gastronomic superstar Adolphe Dugléré serves his famous
Dîner des trois empereurs
at the Café Anglais. Tsar Alexander II, his son the future Alexander III, William I of Prussia (and Bismarck) attend. The evening is reputed to be the most magnificent ever to have been hosted in a restaurant (though the Tsar complained about the absence of foie gras-it was duly sent on to him in October, when in season).
DATE: 1868
LITERARY CONTEXT: Brisse:
Les 366 menus du Baron Brisse
.
Dubois:
La Cuisine de tous les pays
.
DATE: 1869
LITERARY CONTEXT: Flaubert:
L’Education sentimentale
.
DATE: 1870–71
HISTORICAL EVENTS: Franco-Prussian War. Battle of Sedan. Surrender of Napoleon III; republic declared. Siege and surrender of Paris. Paris Commune.
DATE: 1872
LITERARY CONTEXT: Dumas
père: Grand dictionnaire de la cuisine
.
Gouffé:
Le Livre de pâtisserie; Le Livre des conserves
.
DATE: 1873
LITERARY CONTEXT: Zola:
Le Ventre de Paris
.
DATE: 1875
LITERARY CONTEXT: Gouffé:
Le Livre de soupes et des potages
.
HISTORICAL EVENTS: Constitution of Third Republic voted.
DATE: 1877
LITERARY CONTEXT: Zola:
L’Assommoir
.
DATE: 1878
LITERARY CONTEXT: Dubois:
Nouvelle cuisine bourgeoise pour la ville et pour la campagne
.
DATE: 1879
AUTHOR’S LIFE: Charles Monselet introduces a new edition of the
Physiologie
.
DATE: 1882
LITERARY CONTEXT: Brisse:
La Cuisine en Caréme
.
DATE: 1884
LITERARY CONTEXT: Huysmans:
A Rebours
.
Maupassant: “Boule de suif”.
DATE: 1885
LITERARY CONTEXT: Maupassant:
Bel-Ami
.
DATE: 1887
LITERARY CONTEXT: Maupassant: “Le Rosier de Madame Housson”.
DATE: 1892
LITERARY CONTEXT: Lucien Tendret (great-nephew of BS):
La Table au pays de Brillat-Savarin
.
DATE: 1894
LITERARY CONTEXT: Chatillon-Plessis:
La vie à table à la fin du XIXe siècle
includes a collective portrait of the
Galerie des Gastronomes et Practiciens français, de Brillat-Savarin à nos jours
.
THE TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
———
I made this translation by myself, and can therefore thank none for it but perhaps my first teacher, who helped me learn to read. I have put it into the simplest words I know, since I feel that it is a singularly straightforward and unornamented piece of prose to have been written in a flowery literary period. I have kept as far as possible its measured rhythm, and have changed into colons only a few overburdened commas and semicolons. As I have more than once pointed out along the way, the Professor’s idiosyncrasies of spelling foreign words I have accentuated with SPACED SMALL CAPS , to differentiate them from his own stressed words. I emerge from the real ordeal of translation with an even realer humility.
As for the numerous glosses which I have added to the
HISTORICAL EVENTS: Louis Napoleon’s
Coup d’état
and proclamation of Empire.
To coincide with the Great Exhibition in London’s Hyde Park, Soyer’s opens his “Universal Symposium to all Nations” – a flamboyant fashionable restaurant in Kensington Gore, with capacity to feed 5000 people daily.
Though well patronised it is a financial catastrophe, and closes after only three months.
DATE: 1853
LITERARY CONTEXT: Viart, Fouret, Délan:
Le
Cuisinier national de la ville et de la campagne
.
Sydney Whiting:
Memoirs of a
Stomach: Written by Himself
,
That All Who Eat May Read –
a best-seller in its day.
DATE: 1855
LITERARY CONTEXT: Soyer:
A Shilling Cookery for the People
.
DATE: 1856
LITERARY CONTEXT: Flaubert:
Madame Bovary
.
Dubois/Bernard:
La Cuisine classique
.
DATE: 1859
LITERARY CONTEXT: Monselet:
La Cuisinière poétique
.
DATE: 1860
LITERARY CONTEXT: Baudelaire:
Les Paradis artificiels
.
DATE: 1862
LITERARY CONTEXT: Flaubert:
Salammbô
.
Monselet:
Almanach des gourmands
(6 volumes, to 1870).
DATE: 1863–4
LITERARY CONTEXT: Dumas,
père: Lettres sur la cuisine à un prétendu gourmand napolitain
.
DATE: 1867
LITERARY CONTEXT: Gouffé:
Le Livre de cuisine
.
HISTORICAL EVENTS: On 7 June gastronomic superstar Adolphe Dugléré serves his famous
Dîner des trois empereurs
at the Café Anglais. Tsar Alexander II, his son the future Alexander III, William I of Prussia (and Bismarck) attend. The evening is reputed to be the most magnificent ever to have been hosted in a restaurant (though the Tsar complained about the absence of foie gras-it was duly sent on to him in October, when in season).
DATE: 1868
LITERARY CONTEXT: Brisse:
Les 366 menus du Baron Brisse
.
Dubois:
La Cuisine de tous les pays
.
DATE: 1869
LITERARY CONTEXT: Flaubert:
L’Education sentimentale
.
DATE: 1870–71
HISTORICAL EVENTS: Franco-Prussian War. Battle of Sedan. Surrender of Napoleon III; republic declared. Siege and surrender of Paris. Paris Commune.
DATE: 1872
LITERARY CONTEXT: Dumas
père: Grand dictionnaire de la cuisine
.
Gouffé:
Le Livre de pâtisserie; Le Livre des conserves
.
DATE: 1873
LITERARY CONTEXT: Zola:
Le Ventre de Paris
.
DATE: 1875
LITERARY CONTEXT: Gouffé:
Le Livre de soupes et des potages
.
HISTORICAL EVENTS: Constitution of Third Republic voted.
DATE: 1877
LITERARY CONTEXT: Zola:
L’Assommoir
.
DATE: 1878
LITERARY CONTEXT: Dubois:
Nouvelle cuisine bourgeoise pour la ville et pour la campagne
.
DATE: 1879
AUTHOR’S LIFE: Charles Monselet introduces a new edition of the
Physiologie
.
DATE: 1882
LITERARY CONTEXT: Brisse:
La Cuisine en Caréme
.
DATE: 1884
LITERARY CONTEXT: Huysmans:
A Rebours
.
Maupassant: “Boule de suif”.
DATE: 1885
LITERARY CONTEXT: Maupassant:
Bel-Ami
.
DATE: 1887
LITERARY CONTEXT: Maupassant: “Le Rosier de Madame Housson”.
DATE: 1892
LITERARY CONTEXT: Lucien Tendret (great-nephew of BS):
La Table au pays de Brillat-Savarin
.
DATE: 1894
LITERARY CONTEXT: Chatillon-Plessis:
La vie à table à la fin du XIXe siècle
includes a collective portrait of the
Galerie des Gastronomes et Practiciens français, de Brillat-Savarin à nos jours
.
THE TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
———
I made this translation by myself, and can therefore thank none for it but perhaps my first teacher, who helped me learn to read. I have put it into the simplest words I know, since I feel that it is a singularly straightforward and unornamented piece of prose to have been written in a flowery literary period. I have kept as far as possible its measured rhythm, and have changed into colons only a few overburdened commas and semicolons. As I have more than once pointed out along the way, the Professor’s idiosyncrasies of spelling foreign words I have accentuated with SPACED SMALL CAPS , to differentiate them from his own stressed words. I emerge from the real ordeal of translation with an even realer humility.
As for the numerous glosses which I have added to the
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