The Invention of the Restaurant Quotes

“Defining the gastronomer as someone who appreciated any well-prepared dish, no matter how humble its origins, Grimod de la Reynière pointedly distinguished the subtleties of “savoir-manger” from the easily calculated vulgarities of wherewithal.53 Gastronomic sensitivity, he asserted, did not depend on social position”
― Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, With a New Preface