The Physiology of Taste: Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer, politician, magistrate, and literary man of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."An animal swallows its food; a man eats it, but only a man of intelligence knows...how to dine.""The man who gives a dinner for a group of his friends and takes no trouble over what they are to eat is not fit to have any friends.""The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the d…