The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825
From those snippets if you require the whole, you may find it here. After all, is it possible to resist a book with the subtitle "Transcendental Gastronomy?"