September 8, 2010
Tournedos Rossini
David Russo asked:
Gioacchino Rossini "I know of no better occupation than eating, eating well that is. Appetite is to the stomach what love is to the heart. Our stomach is the conductor to the grand orchestra of our passions".
This quote of Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) helps us understand the devotion of the Italian master to food.
His biographers write that already as a boy, one of his joys was to be an altar boy so that he could drink the sacramental wine left over from mass! Before becoming famous, and consequentially rich, he is said to have been always short on money because he could not resist the temptation of a good restaurant or bottle of fine wine.
In the span of time between his first opera "Demetrio e Polibio", which he wrote at 14, and his last "Guillaume Tell", written at 37, Rossini claimed to have "known all of the most famous chefs on the continent." He spent the last 40 years of his life largely in Paris, enjoying the company of his friends and the comforts of good food.
Antonin Car
Gioacchino Rossini "I know of no better occupation than eating, eating well that is. Appetite is to the stomach what love is to the heart. Our stomach is the conductor to the grand orchestra of our passions".
This quote of Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) helps us understand the devotion of the Italian master to food.
His biographers write that already as a boy, one of his joys was to be an altar boy so that he could drink the sacramental wine left over from mass! Before becoming famous, and consequentially rich, he is said to have been always short on money because he could not resist the temptation of a good restaurant or bottle of fine wine.
In the span of time between his first opera "Demetrio e Polibio", which he wrote at 14, and his last "Guillaume Tell", written at 37, Rossini claimed to have "known all of the most famous chefs on the continent." He spent the last 40 years of his life largely in Paris, enjoying the company of his friends and the comforts of good food.
Antonin Car
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