Word: brillat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tell me what you eat," said the French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "and I will tell you who you are." This is strikingly true of the way still life-the depiction of inanimate things, mainly food, drink and the vessels used to serve them-developed in Spain from the 16th century on. You might almost say that independent still life, painting that had no other purpose than to confront us with objects for their own sake, was a Hispanic reinvention. It was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but then lost, and it did not come back...
...inevitably, a Frenchman who concocted the theory that you are what you eat. (More precisely, wrote the 19th century gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, "tell me what you eat, and I'll tell you what you are.") Not surprisingly, another Frenchman has come up with an intriguing corollary: the better you eat, the better you'll think...
...People aren't eating out less," says Ronald Paul, president of Technomic Inc., a Chicago-based market-research firm. "They are just seeking better value." If, as the French gourmand Brillat-Savarin observed, you are what you eat, these days Americans are down-home, comfortable, just plain folks -- but not to be taken for granted...