“ Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ”
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.
The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion.
There are neither raptures, nor ecstasies, nor transports of bliss in the pleasures of the table; but they make up in duration what they lose in intensity, and are distinguished above all by the merit of inclining us towards all the other pleasures of life, or at least of consoling us for the loss of them.
