Romanticism may be associated with gusto, but it has hardly been recognized—at least within literary circles —as the period that saw the invention of the restaurant and a unique, comic-philosophical genre of writing about food. But in fact Romanticism was coterminous with, and in many ways emblematic of, the culture of sophistication and social positioning we associate with modern gastronomy.

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