Саварен – философът гастроном
Savarin – The Gastronome Philosopher

Summary/Abstract: The article presents and analyzes the cultural and philosophical ideas of the French philosopher, lawyer and political activist Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, whose contribution to understanding the phenomenon of nutrition has been underestimated. These ideas have most clearly been set forth in his book “The Physiology of Taste”, written in an elegant style, with an inexhaustible wit and containing a number of iconic aphorisms. Apart from the style and humor the book impresses with the unique synthesis of knowledge of various scientific fields, of required norms, moral and aesthetic rules and the dissection of taste transforming simple pleasure and delight into a precise “act of appreciation”. Savarin's main idea is that a genuinely good and fine nutrition implies all manifestations of high taste refracted through the spirit – knowledge of quality food and the ways of its preparation, definition of the required norms of dining behavior, awareness of the social and cultural role of food and a strategy of one’s own personal advancement which can be realized in a field such as the daily nutrition regimen often ignored by theoreticians.

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