FOOD text by BRUNO VERJUS bruno is a food writer, french chef, and the owner of the exclusive restaurant called table in the 12th arondissement of paris In my teenage reading years came the Alexandre Dumas period. A true giant, that one. His Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine still throws me for a loop. That monumental work, that temple of taste, combines food for the body with food for the mind. As Dumas understood before anyone else, the belly is our second brain, and historically the first. Reading him, we concede that the stomach is our first brain, that the original brain is indeed the belly. Common sense tells us so. Anxious people get a knot in their belly, and lovers butterflies in their stomach. At times we make decisions by following our gut — with fear in our belly. Science has passed down its ruling. We do indeed possess two…