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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.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
You first parents of the human race ... who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas ...
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
A meal without wine is like a day without sun
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise ...
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The way in which meals are enjoyed is very important to the happiness of life.6
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin