Brillant-Savarin, “Tell me what you eat; I will tell what you are”

“Tell me what you eat; I will tell what you are” Brillat-Savarin, a famous French gastronomist asserted late in the 18th century.
According to the modern scientific researches, this aphorism – later taken up again by the German philosopher Feuerbach, who asserted “A man is what he eats” – seem today an emblematic synthesis of the relationship between man and nature, but, above all, it alludes very effectively to the strict connection existing between foods and health. All of us are nowadays aware thereof, even though a number of commonplaces still survive, which only the science can help to discredit.