A Literary Culinary Journal
by Simón de Swaan
Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.–Voltaire, 1770
François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a writer, historian and philosopher of the French Enlightenment, famous for his wit and for advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state.
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.–Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire was born into a middle class family in Paris in 1694. He is perhaps the very embodiment of the Enlightenment, serving as a crusader against tyranny and bigotry on the part of the Catholic church as well as government and society, as a result of which he spent time in the Bastille prison and in exile in England, Holland and Geneva. He is best known for his book Candide, a scathing view of humanity, where he concludes the best one can do in life is, “Il faut cultiver notre jardin,” i.e. look after your own garden. He died in 1778.
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Meet Jonell Galloway, a freelance writer and editor specialized in French cuisine. 
