“ Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and thus can repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.
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Brillat Savarin from The Physiology of Taste via the epigraph from one of my favorite novels of 2010, Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
