I finished reading The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. This quotation was in it and I loved it.
" Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living. "
- The Physiology of Taste
Brillat-Savarin
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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