The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

Between them two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay. For the cheese from Normandy see Brillat-Savarin cheese
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1 April 1755 Belley Ain – 2 February 1826 Paris) was a French lawyer and politician and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin.