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O fim da alta gastronomia

Por Ricardo Lombardi
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Para quem gosta de gastronomia, uma sugestão de leitura (em inglês): o texto "Down to the Last Cream Puff", de Steven Shapin, publicado na London Review of Books. É a resenha do livro "Au Revoir to All That: The Rise and Fall of French Cuisine", de Michael Steinberger. O destaque do editor ficou assim (o grifo é meu).

"The winner of a horse race is the fastest animal, but in a dog show the best of breed isn't the fastest, or the biggest, or the hairiest, but the truest to type. The top beagle is reckoned to be the essence of beagleness, and the best dog in show is the animal that is more true to its type than any other is to its. So where - among these and other economies of merit - do we find notions like the best dish, the best chef, the best restaurant, or even the best national cuisine? And what kind of sense does it make to say that one national cuisine has lost the race for excellence to another?"

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