This, Hervé, <br/><br/>
Cooking :  the quintessential art / 
 Quintessential art / 
Hervé This and Pierre Gagnaire ; translated by M.B. DeBevoise. 
 - 355 pages :  illustrations ;  21 cm. 
 - California studies in food and culture ;  23 .
 - California studies in food and culture ;  23. .
<br/><br/> Translated from the French. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335) and index. 
<br/><br/>Two introductions -- Pt. 1: The beautiful is the good. The existence of a culinary art ; Artisanal versus artistic cuisine ; Tradition and love ; The question of nature ; The recognition of a culinary art -- Pt. 2: Classical ideas of beauty. The origin of beauty ; Beauty of numbers ; The idea of flavor ; Aristotle and subtlety -- Pt. 3: Beauty in the Middle Ages. The path to the mystical good ; Of cooking and cathedrals ; Boethius and the brain ; Thomas Aquinas and the green of the grass ; Drawing Earth nearer to heaven -- Pt. 4: Artistic creativity unbound. Medieval ramifications ; The occult influence of Aristotle lives on ; The dawn of the Renaissance ; From the Renaissance onward ; The enlightenment in the West and the East ; Nature overcome -- Pt. 5: The present and future of cooking. The many strands of modernity ; Yesterday ; And tomorrow? ; Simplicity and completeness ; The illusion of the perfect bouillon -- List of recipes. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520252950 9780520252950 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007050920 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Gastronomy--History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TX631  / .T5513 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>641.013