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
fate way nations
The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.
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.
men aphrodisiac truffles
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
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.
country food loss
The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.
love horse food
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
people chocolate helpful
It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.
food silly wine
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.