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Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Food writing

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

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
1825
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Food
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Food writing
Time
1825
Person
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Current citation
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, aph. 4.
Original citation
Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, aph. 4.

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