Brillat-Savarin vs Elizabeth David: is taste a science or a spirit?

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are - gastronomy is a science of the whole human animal.

Keep your treatises, monsieur; give me a bowl of Provençal figs and a plain iron pan, and I'll teach the palate more than any theory.

But without the philosopher, your figs are mere appetite - I gave the meal a mind, a physiology, a place among the arts.

And I gave it a kitchen it could actually enter - your dinner is a lecture, mine is supper, and supper is what people remember.