The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

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.