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
sight scales remarkable
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
mania
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
smell substance
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
character smell faithful
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
men organs objects
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
race perfection rolling
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
men sight would-be
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
food men gourmet
No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.
coffee wine discovery
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
vegetables roots different
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
pain men firsts
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
food salad irritating
Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
hands delight able
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
chocolate church world
The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.