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.
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.
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.
enables
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.