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Subscribe to my monthly newsletter here for all my latest writing. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are" is one of the most famous quotes attributed to the eighteenth century lawyer-cum-politician-cum-gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, whose most notable work was The Physiology of Taste , paving the way for modern food writing. In short, he's an icon of food writing and this film, The Taste of Things , currently on BBC iPlayer is loosely based on the novel by Marcel...