Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
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The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.
You first parents of the human race ... who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.
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.
Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.
Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
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.
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise ...
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.