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
taste culinary preference
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.
universe
The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.
together progress guests
Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.
culinary fine truffles
In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
taste trousers
Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
numbers body peculiar
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
food writing water
At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
gluttony mankind exclusive
Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
lunch chocolate dinner
If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.
tired wine feel-better
Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.
food men gourmet
No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.
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!