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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin. Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay." Wikipedia  

✵ 1. April 1755 – 2. February 1826  •  Other names Жан Антельм Брилья-Саварен
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“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

Source: The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

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

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. <br class="br"> Aphorism #4 http://books.google.com/books?id=enUTAAAAQAAJ&amp;q=%22Dis-moi+ce+que+tu+manges+je+te+dirai+ce+que+tu+es%22&amp;pg=PA13#v=onepage, Physiologie du Goût (1825)

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