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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

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. — 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

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

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour. — 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