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“Man needs food like a goat needs a monkey” – Brillat-Savarin

From:  The Handbook of Gastronomy by Brillat-Savarin,  1884, with  52 engravings by Lalauze

From: The Handbook of Gastronomy by Brillat-Savarin, 1884, with 52 engravings by Lalauze

Some people think this somewhat cryptic statement of B-S’s would have made more sense the other way around.

What’s the monkey holding though? Too small to be an orange – a lemon? Clementine? Apricot, maybe?

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One comment for ““Man needs food like a goat needs a monkey” – Brillat-Savarin”

  1. a quince? a bletted medlar?

    Posted by Matthew Battles | December 5, 2009, 5:21 pm

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