Includes "The Physiology Of Taste", a pre-publication excerpt of M.F.K. Fisher's translation of Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste, with illustrations by Walter Bruehr. George Macy was furious when he learned that Fisher's agent had arranged for these excerpts to be printed, and he threatened to halt publication of the Limited Editions Club translation that he had commissioned from Fisher. In the end, this excerpt and another in the August 1948 issue of Gourmet where published without Fisher's commentary "glosses".