Mallarmé’s Gardens of Culinary Delights

Albert Sonnenfeld’s essay, we return to Mallarmé, but this time in a context that emphasizes the quotidian pleasure of gastronomy. Sonnenfeld explores this ‘garden of culinary delights’ as seen in both Mallarmé’s correspondence and poetry. Sonnenfeld argues for both the eroticization of food (especially when Méry Laurent, Mallarmé’s putative mistress and correspondent, is concerned) and the ‘poetization’ of gastronomy in Mallarmé’s verse.