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Jean anthelme brillat-savarin tell me what you eat

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Originally published in 1825, Physiology of Taste is a culinary masterpiece that gives insight into the history and practice of eating, both together and alone. The author uses a unique storytelling style to detail the sensual art of fine dining.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin believes that what you eat is a reflection of who you are. Through years of observation and study, he created a book detailing the art and science of food. He takes a philosophical approach that applies common epicurean ideas. He discusses the influence of taste and smell, as well as the power of flavor. Through anecdotes and essays, the author explores the principles of gastronomy and the hierarchy of foods within a diet. Many of the book’s musings are still relevant and maintain their value in the modern world.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin understood the critical impact of food on the body and mind. With Physiology of Taste, he illustrates the effects of cooking and consumin

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We all have heroes, people we admire and want to emulate, perhaps to impress. Some of them will be distant figures who may have lived generations before us, others will be members of our own family. All of them make us who we are. A few years ago, I gave a series of dinners in celebration of some of my culinary heroes, the final of which marked my admiration for Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, author of La Physiologie du Goût(the physiology of taste). Unlike the three previous heroes (Elizabeth David, Anton Mosimann and Auguste Escoffier), Brillat-Savarin never left us a single recipe. He produced instead a finely written collection of meditations on the value of good eating, which guide us through an approach to food that is at once careful and exploratory. Modern psychology might recognise in many of his meditations what we would call "mindful" enjoyment of the pleasures of the table. That his master-work has not been out of print in French since its first publication is testimo

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

French lawyer, politician and culinary writer

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Posthumous portrait, 1848
Born	2 April 1755 Belley, France
Died	2 February 1826(1826-02-02) (aged 70) Paris, France
Resting place	Père Lachaise Cemetery
Notable works	Physiologie ni goût (The Physiology of Taste)

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

Aphorism IV, Physiologie ni goût^[1]

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃ɑ̃tɛlmbʁijasavaʁɛ̃]; 2 April 1755 – 2 February 1826) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.

Rising to modest eminence in the last years of France's Ancien Régim