gastronomers

By disseminating upper-class cuisine and etiquette to an enlarged, bourgeois clientele, gastronomers in part help to maintain the elitist social codes of the ancient régime.

Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire 2007

She considers how, "even as gastronomers advance their case for both the aesthetic and artistic standing of cuisine, philosophers continue to exclude taste from the aesthetic senses and cuisine from the arts."

Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef 2007

So too do gastronomers extol well-prepared foods for the refined pleasures they afford and the delicacy of palate they demand.

Tastes and Pleasures 2007

But when gastronomers refer to taste they are not limiting themselves to the contribution of the tongue alone anyway, and Brillat is especially eloquent about the combination of senses that contribute to the full tasting experience.

Tastes and Pleasures 2007

(Following this line of thought, other gastronomers advanced communal standards for culinary judgments with the foundation of gastronomic "juries" whose opinions stood as shared norms for gustatory taste) (Gigante, Gusto xxvi) .3

Tastes and Pleasures 2007

Yet even as gastronomers advance their case for both the aesthetic and artistic standing of cuisine, philosophers continue to exclude taste from the aesthetic senses and cuisine from the arts.

Tastes and Pleasures 2007

That sensory pleasures require control is a common observation, of course, and one duly recognized by gastronomers.

Tastes and Pleasures 2007

But outside the laboratory taste almost never functions alone, and gastronomers usually use

Tastes and Pleasures 2007

Brillat-Savarin — and a host of other gastronomers — convincingly demonstrates that attentive savoring ought to qualify as a type of aesthetic discernment.

Tastes and Pleasures 2007

Perhaps the most important is that both gastronomers and philosophers endorse a hedonic foundation for the defining values of their arts.

Tastes and Pleasures 2007