| Gioacchino Rossini "I know of no better | | | | said to have been always short on money |
| occupation than eating, eating well that is. Appetite | | | | because he could not resist the temptation of a |
| is to the stomach what love is to the heart. Our | | | | good restaurant or bottle of fine wine.In the span |
| stomach is the conductor to the grand orchestra | | | | of time between his first opera "Demetrio e |
| of our passions".This quote of Gioacchino Rossini | | | | Polibio", which he wrote at 14, and his last |
| (1792-1868) helps us understand the devotion of | | | | "Guillaume Tell", written at 37, Rossini claimed to |
| the Italian master to food.His biographers write | | | | have "known all of the most famous chefs on the |
| that already as a boy, one of his joys was to be | | | | continent." He spent the last 40 years of his life |
| an altar boy so that he could drink the | | | | largely in Paris, enjoying the company of his |
| sacramental wine left over from mass! Before | | | | friends and the comforts of good food. |
| becoming famous, and consequentially rich, he is | | | | |