"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."
Opening of the Estates General, 1789
As a deputy to the National Constituent Assembly
John Street Theatre, New York, where Brillat-Savarin earned a living as a violinist
The Cour de cassation, Paris, to which Brillat-Savarin was appointed a judge in 1799
Ortolan bunting
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The ortolan, also called ortolan bunting, is a Eurasian bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a passerine family now separated by most modern scholars from the finches, Fringillidae. The genus name
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
…and acquaintances of his parents many unusual things about food, including a three-day method of cooking spinach, how to eat small game birds like ortolans, and how to prepare chocolate for drinking. His formal education proceeded along more conventional lines: he entered the Collège de Belley in 1764 or…
Ortolan bunting in Sierra de Guara, Aragon, Spain
Ortolan bunting bird mount preparation
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