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Quotation by Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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La Physiologie du Goût (1826)Related Subjects
hunger (9) cookery (8) drinking (8) fruit (6) sex (6) animals (5) plants (4) health (4) life (4) taste (3)
Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are.
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826), French jurist, gastronome. La Physiologie du Goût, introduction, aph. 4 (1826).
Brillat-Savarin's aphorism was echoed by the philosopher Ludwig Feurerbach, quoted in 1850: "Man is what he eats"Mitself probably the precursor of the expression, "You are what you eat."
Brillat-Savarin's aphorism was echoed by the philosopher Ludwig Feurerbach, quoted in 1850: "Man is what he eats"Mitself probably the precursor of the expression, "You are what you eat."
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