Being a gastronome means knowing how to reason the fork, how to think the table. However, it is difficult to philosophize about your bite, or even to discuss the art of good eating, without knowing Brillat-Savarin and his indispensable alter ego, Grimod de la Reynière.

Bistro, bistronomy, biztronomy, gastronomy, what does it all mean? Believe it or not, gastronomy is almost 2500 years old and comes from one of the oldest "trip advisors" known.