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
food silly wine
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
food giving meals
He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
fate way nations
The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.
long people responsible
To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.
food ideas erotic
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas....
wise art men
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
ideas limits degrees
The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
wine pills dessert
I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
food turkeys apples
You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
taste culinary preference
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational and habitual preference for all objects that flatter the sense of taste.
hands choices pretty-woman
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
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.
wine men alcohol
A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."