The New Gastronomy (Food Programme 14 February)

posted by Geoff Andrews at Sunday, February 14, 2010

Jean-Anthelme Brillat Savarin's The Physiology of Taste, published in 1825, argued in its 'third meditation' that before too long there would be an 'academy of gastronomers'. Now, nearly two hundred years later, it seems his dream is finally being realised, in Italy, the US, even...in the UK? Listen to the 'New Gastronomy' programme on the Radio 4 iplayer