Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1 April 1755, Belley, Ain – 2 February 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin. Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay."^{[citation needed]}

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

Quotes

• Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.
  • Translation: Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
  • Aphorism #4, Physiologie du Goût (1825)