On Jun 10, 3:27*pm, Peter Brooks > wrote:
> On Jun 10, 1:18*pm, Paul Grieg > wrote:
>
> > It was simple in that he didn't like anyone after Brahms, and even in
> > him he detected "the sound of machines". He preferred Mozart and
> > Beethoven. But he was forever bolting down his cheese sandwiches and
> > rushing to Cambridge classisal music performances. See if he'd got out
> > his cookbook he'd have missed the music, thereby replacing the
> > essential with the trivial.
>
> Cookery is essential, music not. Somebody who despises food is
> probably a smoker or suffers from a lack of taste brought on by
> chronic olfactory dysfunction. I don't think Wittgenstein had the
> excuse of being a smoker. He went to the same school, though, as
> Hitler, who ended up suffering from vegetarianism (and was also a non-
> smoker), another form of food-hatred, so there might be a school
> related connection.
>
> We haven't discussed the philosophy of cookery here much. It might be
> a worthy subject. There's a book with that title by Nancy Ogg, though
> I think that Larousse Gastronomique and the companion book by
> Curnonski might be more authentic for sauces.
>
> "La sauce est tout" can certainly be read as a philosophical
> statement.
>
> Thinking of Lance's recent word puzzle, it might be interesting to
> speculate on any significance in g-free gastronomy being the study of
> the cosmos.
>
> I think that, in recent times, Jane Grigson could be said to have
> produced studies in the philosophy of cookery - though Mrs Beeton with
> 'first catch your hare' got there first, and, to some, perhaps, being
> considerably less practical, more convincingly.
>
> Music ought to be an accompaniment to good digestion and somebody who
> inflicts a hasty cheese sandwich on his tum before a concert is very
> likely doing digestion of both a disservice.
I wondered as I read your comments whether you would mention the South
African philosopher Marthinus Versfeld -
http://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marthinus_Versfeld
(The above is in Afrikaans).
He wrote a book called:
Food for Thought: A Philosopher"s Cookbook. (1983 & 1991 (2de
uitgawe))
Lance