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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

~Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

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Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

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The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

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Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

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The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

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The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

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The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

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I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Lawyer

Born: April 1st, 1755

Died: February 2nd, 1826

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