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
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.
wine pills dessert
I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
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.
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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."
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.
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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.
waiting firsts wells
To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
gluttony mankind exclusive
Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
party tea meals
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.