"An animal swallows its food; a man eats it, but only a man of intelligence knows...how to dine."
"The man who gives a dinner for a group of his friends and takes no trouble over what they are to eat is not fit to have any friends."
"The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a new star."
The above are a few of the "transcendental" meditations upon cooking as an art and eating as a pleasure which glow throughout the length of Physiologie du Gout. Brillat-Savarin was alive to the necessity of charming and even...
"An animal swallows its food; a man eats it, but only a man of intelligence knows...how to dine."
