Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 19, 2012
Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.–Curnonsky
Maurice Edmond Sailland, better known by his pen-name Curnonsky, and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was the most celebrated writer on gastronomy in France in the 20th century. He wrote or ghost-wrote over 65 books and enormous numbers of newspaper columns, included his most famous book, La France Gastronomique: Guide Des Merveilles Culinaires Et Des Bonnes Auberges Fran Aises (Gastronomic France: Guide to Culinary Marvels and Good French Inns).

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better known by his pen-name Curnonsky, and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was the most celebrated writer on gastronomy in France in the 20th century.