Monday
Jun272011
Brillat-Savarin on cheese and women

"A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye."
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste


"Cooking, in effect, took part of the work of chewing and digestion and performed it for us outside of the body, using outside sources of energy. Also, since cooking detoxifies many potential sources of food, the new technology cracked open a treasure trove of calories unavailable to other animals. Freed from the necessity of spending our days gathering large quantities of raw food and then chewing (and chewing) it, humans could now devote their time, and their metabolic resources, to other purposes, like creating a culture."
"A dinner which ends without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye."
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
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