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 trousers
Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
wine glasses obscure
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.
drinking drunk ignorant
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
poultry canvas painter
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.
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.
alcohol liquid monarchs
Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
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.
children pain coffee
It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.
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.
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.
appreciation appreciate potatoes
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
guests punctuality said
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.