Aphorisms

• The world is nothing without life, and all that lives takes nourishment.
• Animal feed, man eats: only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
• The fate of nations depends on the way they eat.
• Tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are.
• The Creator, who made men such that he must eat to live, incites him to eat by means of appetite, and rewards him with pleasure.
• Gourmandism is an act of judgement, by which we give preference to things which are agreeable to our taste over those which are not.
• The pleasures of the table belong to all times and all ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.
• The table is the only place where the first hour is never dull.
• The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
• Drunkards and victims of indigestion do not know how to eat or drink.
• The right order of eating is from the most substantial dishes to the lightest. 
• The right order of drinking is from the mildest wines to the headiest and most perfumed.
• Dessert without cheese is like a pretty woman with only one eye.

picked up from "The Philosopher in the Kitchen" by Jean- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1970)The Philosopher in the Kitchen