Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
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The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
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Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye
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In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.
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In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.
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Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
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Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
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Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
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The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.
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La volaille est pour la cuisine ce qu'est la toile pour les peintres. Fowls are to the kitchen what his canvas is to the painter.
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I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
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At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."
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A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."
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Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
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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.
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The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
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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.
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I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
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The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
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The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.
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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
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Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.
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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.
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Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!