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“Tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Gastronome, author of The Physiology of Taste
Physiologie du Goût (1825), Vol. 1, Aphorisms, no. 4 (tr. L. F. Simpson, 1864)
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