Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Within the British literature dedicated to food and cookery, only some gastronomic examples had been found in cookery treatises such The Cook's Oracle, by Dr. William Kitchiner as well as some snippets included in other culinary works. However, throughout the first half of the 19th century, the existence of a group of authors can be identified who, strongly influenced by French gastronomic writers, especially, Grimod de la Reynière, are responsible for the development of a genre which was specifically gastronomic. Following the new spirit of Romanticism, the British gastronomes were able to provide their works with a distinct style; exhibiting, for instance, a kind of uninhibited humour, which was in contrast with moral rigorousness, showing at the same time a peculiar complacency to animal cruelty or an unconditional indulgence in the pleasures of the senses.
Source: Historia Contemporánea
DOI: 10.1387/hc.12831
Author: José María Díaz Rodríguez
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2079289357