Brillat-Savarin and I have been getting together — a lot. Not the man, who expired 190 years ago. But the cheese, which is immortal. Who can resist those square shoulders, that tender soul? Who can ...

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French judge and politician who managed to survive revolution, the Napoleonic wars and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, all the while exercising a ...

In 1825, Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a French lawyer, philosopher and perhaps the first real foodie (except back then they called them gourmands) wrote in The Physiology of Taste-- a treatise that ...

Since its completion in 1825, this handbook has appeared in so many different guises – from 1889's Gastronomy as a Fine Art to The Philosopher in the Kitchen in 1970 – that much of its wisdom has ...

Inspired by the birthday of famous French epicure and barrister Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, on Thursday night, Omnivore Books is hosting an edible art contest featuring dishes referencing works of ...

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