Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarinwas a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin. Between them, two writers effectively founded the whole genre of the gastronomic essay."...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth1 April 1755
CountryFrance
chocolate church world
The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.
food men gourmet
No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.
smell substance
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
stars discovery mets
La de couverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la de couverte d'une e toile. The discoveryof a newdish doesmore for thehappiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
food gentleman sitting
At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."
food salad irritating
Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
dream food discovery
Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!
birth language decline
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
stars food eye
Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.
air hearing body
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
sight scales remarkable
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
smell noses cry
For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'
mania
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
kitchen fowl cuisine
La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.