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Cooking is the most ancient of arts, for Adam was born hungry. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Cooking is the most ancient of arts, for Adam was born hungry.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
1825
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CookingFood
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1825
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, meditation 27.
Original citation
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, meditation 27.

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