Food History

The Physiology of Taste

by Brillat-Savarin

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a lawyer and judge, published this in December 1825, two months before he died. It is the book of the famous aphorism that what you eat tells what you are, and of many more, with essays on appetite, thirst, dreams and the pleasures of the table. This is Fayette Robinson’s American translation.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 4 hr 40 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #5434. In the public domain in the United States.