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.
drunk long chocolate
Those who have been too long at their labor, who have drunk too long at the cup of voluptuousness, who feel they have become temporarily inhumane, who are tormented by their families, who find life sad and love ephemeral......they should all eat chocolate and they will be comforted.
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.
beautiful laughter food
Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.
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.
eye cheesy cheese
Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye
smell mouths taste
Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.
doctors harmony sensible
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
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?